Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.
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We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.
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I have been a producer and director for many years, and I can say it's really difficult for women, although the women in Mexico suffer as much as other women in the world. The first thing is to get respect for the work you do. Then it is about getting the money. And this respect comes little by little over the years.
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I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
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Tomorrow we embark upon the boundless sea.
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Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team -or our society -could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.
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It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.