Bel Kaufman Quotes
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
Bel Kaufman
Quotes to Explore
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
Ram Charan
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
Edie Falco
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
Federico Fellini
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
Cameron Winklevoss
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
Wendell Berry
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
Edie Falco
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
Zig Ziglar
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Adam Clarke
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In time the Rockies may crumble,Gibraltar may tumble,They're only made of clay,But our love is here to stay.
Ira Gershwin
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour
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'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, 'Why, you are the very image of Meph-'
Louisa May Alcott
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Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.
George Gilder
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Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
Ziad Abdelnour
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He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.
Ian Mcewan
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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
Bel Kaufman
