Catharine Beecher Quotes
Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
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I have to be creative to be happy.
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Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.
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Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.
