Bel Kaufman Quotes
Now, long before it came to the final reckoning, to payment of promise implied, she began to set the stage for the great renunciation. “Let’s not spoil it,” she would say, caressing the man’s lapels with long silken fingers. “Let’s not spoil what we have . . .
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
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It's just working people one by one, one at a time.
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It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.
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You always want to do things in your hometown. The kids feel more a part of the community when they do.
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
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By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
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Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.
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If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch on to, that's great.
