Naomi Mitchison Quotes
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.
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I can't take on the history of 50 percent of the population just because I'm a woman.
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If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.
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...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.
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The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
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Here I am: My brain is open.
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Do not lose yourself in your everyday work and activities. Rather, lose yourself in God. When you are doing work, let your innermost heart be centered on Him. Live in His presence and abide in Him. Then your work will follow you into eternity, and you will reap a rich harvest.
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Your life, in the end, is the sum total of how you spent your time.
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Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him.
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You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
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When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.
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When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.
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Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.
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Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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These initial findings are troubling and the committee ... will continue with its own investigation of the STAR program to get at the truth and inform Congress for the future.
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The best committee's a committee of one!
