Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
Ursula Burns
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
Iris Apfel
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
John Buchan
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My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
Lesley Lawson
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
W. G. Sebald
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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Don McLean
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
Joanne Rowling
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You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
Elayne Boosler
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The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
Benigno Aquino III
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Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
Pam Houston
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Be a voice not an echo.
Albert Einstein
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.
Erica Jong
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
Don McLean
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The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
Stephen Covey
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Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless.
Elizabeth von Arnim
