Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often. 'Part 2 - Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich' PBS Newshour (27 June 2017)
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After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
