Catherine Helen Spence Quotes
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.
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And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?
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The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.
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It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.
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Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
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Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
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Nothing is ours except time.
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Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.
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Anyone trying to resist developments and persist with political agitation in the old way would not survive in the society ruled by the netocracy. He or she would look like a despicable information-tyrant. The new conditions of the informational media landscape mean that the plurarchic public is turning its back on the old political stage.
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For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.
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All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.
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...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.
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When Mike (is) on like that, he makes it tough for anyone to deal with because he has unlimited range, pretty much. What are you going to do, come up on him? He'll just drive right past you and hit the pull-up. When he's got it going, he's just tough to deal with.
