Nannie Helen Burroughs Quotes
To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.
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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Meditation … puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have.
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
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I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.
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There was a part of me that always wanted to be an editor.
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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History is not hatred.
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One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.
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To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.
