Cecily von Ziegesar (Cecily Brooke von Ziegesar) Quotes
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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The few effective provisions of Dodd-Frank are masked by its many flaws - flaws that have been and will continue to be detrimental to the American economy and our financial future if not reversed.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.
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It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it's like a circular motion and very sacred.
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I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.
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At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.
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For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
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The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.
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I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.
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That's probably why my face was looking so crazy when I was crying [in "Hardball"] because it was some real.
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You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.
