Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
This Mrs. Emory remembers she phoned the Horton house to talk to her friend about a class reunion.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.
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A great social reformer.
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On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
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...Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.
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A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.
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"You only get married the first time once." There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
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I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?
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I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
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If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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Hopefully, this will serve as a wake-up call.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.
