Anna Leonowens Quotes
The night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.
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I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.
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As Americans, we have the right to decide who lives within our borders, and we can't let unscrupulous employers to undercut honest business owners by exploiting cheap labor.
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The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.
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One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
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I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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In my country - even though we have a lot of dark-skinned people - people think the lighter you are, the better you are. They think beauty has to do with being light-skinned. I think that's really wrong.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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The night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.
