Caroline Norton (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton) Quotes
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
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... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.
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I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.
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Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
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There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
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In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
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What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!
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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.
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For as soon as the procreative faculty is thwarted and the number of births diminished, the natural struggle for existence which allows only healthy and strong individuals to survive is replaced by a sheer craze to 'save' feeble and even diseased creatures at any cost. And thus the seeds are sown for a human progeny which will become more and more miserable from one generation to another, as long as Nature's will is scorned.
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They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
