Rebecca Stead Quotes
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
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My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.
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I didn't join a band. I didn't start a band. I got asked to do it. It kinda happened by accident.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.
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Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
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There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.
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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
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Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.
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Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.
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I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away from the landowner when you trespass, most people understand and respect the laws that make it illegal. The real crime in copyright violation is not the making of the copies, it's the expropriation of the creator's right to control the creation.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
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But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
