Bel Kaufman Quotes
I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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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.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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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.
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
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In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.
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In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
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I want a campfire box.
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What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.
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The Reform Party does not, however, equate 'high profile' with electability.
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I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.
