Eleanor Farjeon Quotes
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn’t know about something bad, it wasn’t happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.
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There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
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That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters. When a thoughtful and unblessed Mohammedan examines the Westminster Catechism, he knows that beyond any question I am spiritually insane.
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The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
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The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
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It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
