Casey Miller (Casey Geddes Miller) Quotes
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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387. I believe it might interest a philosopher, one who can think himself, to read my notes. For even if I have hit the mark only rarely, he would recognize what targets I had been ceaselessly aiming at.
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I'm short, and I'm curvy, and so shopping is hard for me sometimes.
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
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conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.
