Ada Velez Quotes
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave. The world would not be if not for my offspring. I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.
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And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
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I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.
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I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.
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We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.
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Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.
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I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
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Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
