Edith Stein Quotes
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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I don't really go out at all.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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I will live to make myself not feared.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
