Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
Tara Brach
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Viggo Mortensen
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
Saint Ambrose
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
Sam Kean
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
J. J. Watt
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
Laura Harring
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
Uwe Boll
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
Adam Peaty
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
Gary Sinise
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
Karyn Parsons
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
Karen Armstrong
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
Oliver Stone
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My witness is the empty sky.
Jack Kerouac
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
Rachel Zoe
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
Gary Ackerman
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
Natalie Gulbis
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
Caio Fonseca
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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
Maya Angelou
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If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.
Dorothy Dandridge
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In Islam there is not much room for anything else but Islam.
Geert Wilders
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Thomas Carlyle