Beryl Markham Quotes
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.
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These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity. These amenities have dignified the right of dissent and have honored the right to be nonconformists and the right to defy submissiveness. They have encouraged lives of high spirits rather than hushed, suffocating silence.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.
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Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.
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Excellent. It's a good group, ... We won last weekend (at the Decatur Eisenhower Cleveland Invitational) and shot 311 and 320. Those are good scores. It was ideal conditions. But the kids played well. The second day we had three girls in the 70s.
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My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.
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You think silence means something. Sometimes, there's just nothing to say.
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing.