Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
Although she was in a fine humour and good spirits, she needed to recuperate. She was like a fine candle without enough wax to sustain the wick.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.
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The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.
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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
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This is really exciting news to a community that was hard-hit in the early '90s with the loss of Fort Ord.
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
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As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.
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The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
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I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
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O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
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Although she was in a fine humour and good spirits, she needed to recuperate. She was like a fine candle without enough wax to sustain the wick.
