Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
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What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Hymns are the poetry of the people.
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The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"
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I swim three times a week.
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The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life.
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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.
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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
