Elizabeth Bear Quotes
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.
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I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.
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But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
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Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
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I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
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If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?
