Eloise Jarvis McGraw Quotes
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.
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Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.
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You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
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And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life
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US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.
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First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
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Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.
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What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.
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The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
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The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
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Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
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In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
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Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
