Amy Johnson Quotes
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.
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As a filmmaker, my approach is to come in not with preconceived notions, but with curiosity, and in that way, whether my subjects are James Carville or Anna Wintour or Dick Cheney, I am always surprised.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or an afterlife. For Carl, what mattered most was what was true, not merely what would make us feel better. Even at this moment when anyone would be forgiven for turning away from the reality of our situation, Carl was unflinching. As we looked deeply into each other's eyes, it was with a shared conviction that our wondrous life together was ending forever.
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My favorite time at NPR has been 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk in person to the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air.
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It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
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Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.
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Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
