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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In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.
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Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives
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They serve God well, who serve his creatures.
