Minna Antrim Quotes
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
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Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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I had been a foreign correspondent in Japan for the 'Wall Street Journal' when my editor there became Washington bureau chief - this was 2007 - and he said, 'How would you like to go to Iowa and cover Hillary Clinton?' I was 28. I went to Iowa.
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The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle, by all that has power of persuasion upon the human heart, concludes his exhortation by an appeal to these irresistible feelings - 'Think of your forefathers and of your posterity.'
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Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
