Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence Quotes
A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
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Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
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A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
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He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.
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The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.
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Recently I have noticed football banners representing other clubs, such as Derby and Leeds, appearing.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.
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We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.
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He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
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Least said, soonest mended.
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I don’t see challenges. I am so grateful for where I am, but I remind myself to remain healthy – from my physical wellbeing to how I am doing spiritually, because if that is good, what will flow out of me to others will also be good.
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I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.
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Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
