Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Education is so important.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.
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If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.
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"Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.
