Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Zoe Lister-Jones

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• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

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• We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • America
  • True
  • Marriage