Frances E. Willard Quotes
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I make work not to give answers but to question things.
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It was the combination of hard work and a hand up that allowed me to become one of the first women to fly in combat missions and achieve my American Dream.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.
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I'd read Stone Cold's biography about how he lived on, like, raw potatoes, and I thought, this is all part of it. This is what wrestlers do, and this is what I'm going to do.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
