Ann Burton Quotes
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
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I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
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Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
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Reason is the slave of passion.
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My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is the central lesson: that diverse cultures can make a country richer and stronger.
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...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
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Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
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Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?
