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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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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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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You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
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What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
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I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.
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"Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.
