Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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We want to get another one.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.
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Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.
