Bette Lord Quotes
What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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What harm is there in dreaming, if it eases pain? What good is reality, if it blots out hope? Can a man's mind be washed without bleaching his soul?
