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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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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The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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That's the way it was every time I studied it.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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"Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.
