Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes
We've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.
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The military clock is ticking. It can be stopped, of course, if a change in behavior of the Serbian side is produced in a very short period of time.
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There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently – without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.
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Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
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We've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.
