Catherine Helen Spence Quotes
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.
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Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
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Nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur.
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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Hochschild’s biggest mistake, though, was one made by almost every popularized housework study: not adequately measuring men’s contribution to work around the home. For example, if mom drives the children to daycare, it’s called housework; if dad drives the family to grandma’s, it isn’t called housework.
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History is the revelation of providence.
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
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You are my fav'rite star, My haven in heaven above, You are ev'rything I love.
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Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.
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Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
