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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Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
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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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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
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Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
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When you're right, nobody remembers. When you're wrong, nobody forgets.
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To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
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This Mrs. Emory remembers she phoned the Horton house to talk to her friend about a class reunion.
