Ellen Battelle Dietrick Quotes
The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban of legislative or ecclesiastical censor, the best thoughts would as naturally prevail over the worst as the best seeds of the forest naturally triumph over the worst seeds.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
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At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
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The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
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We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
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My country has no history, only a past.
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Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.
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I do not believe in diversification. Take a close look at some of the greatest entrepreneurs in U.S. history. Henry Ford never diversified; Bill Gates didn’t diversify. I strongly believe that the best way to create real wealth is to put one’s eggs in one basket and watch that basket (the right one) very carefully. In fact, one can go broke diversifying.
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When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ
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The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween
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It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
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The human race is guided by its own ideas, and only by its ideas. If thought were left perfectly free from ban of legislative or ecclesiastical censor, the best thoughts would as naturally prevail over the worst as the best seeds of the forest naturally triumph over the worst seeds.
