Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Quotes
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.
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I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
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Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.
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We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.
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For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
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I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.
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The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
