Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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When discussing things with someone, it is best to speak appropriately about whatever the subject may be. No matter how good what you are saying might be, it will dampen the conversation if it is irrelevant.
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Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of them will be what I call 'particulars' – such things as little patches of color or sounds, momentary things – and some of them will be predicates or relations and so on.
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’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.
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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
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I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.
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As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.
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I know what it takes to get to the top.
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I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.
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I wanted to have a home where I could go home and unlock my door and go in and be settled. I was tired of being a gypsy.
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find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor
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Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.
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I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.
