Nellie McClung Quotes
War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.
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If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.
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The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
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If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
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I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.
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All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
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A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
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As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.
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Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
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Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.
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The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.
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May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.
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War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
