Kathleen H. Hughes (Elizabeth Margaret von Gerkan) Quotes
Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our own spirits alive.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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Ideas... they have the power.
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I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
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Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.
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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap...
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
