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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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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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.
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Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.
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She thinks that he looks like Elvis, when he runs his fingers through that jet black hair.
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Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up, we can't ask for equal pay, you have to be paid on performance and the results you deliver.
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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 . . .
