Eleanor Clark Quotes
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.
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Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.
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I spent my life making fashion an art form.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
