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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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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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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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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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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Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.
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It's good to draw spectators to the grounds, but I don't think Twenty20 will help you produce good Test cricketers.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.
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The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
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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.
