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've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people.
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I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
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The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.
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But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
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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.
