Pamela Sargent Quotes
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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Tree roots hold river banks together and stop the wind blowing soil away, there are many creatures that live in woods and they provide a sense of well-being and look nice.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
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For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.