Leah Ward Sears Quotes
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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We are made of emotions, we are all looking for emotions, it's only a question of finding the way to experience them. There are many different ways of experience them all. Perhaps one different thing, only that, one particular thing that Formula One can provide you, is that you know we are always expose to danger, danger of getting hurt, danger of dying.
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I don't think there's a problem with dating somebody outside of your race, as long as you're doing it because you want to be with that person. Everybody tells you what you should do when you're dating, but if you follow your heart, it usually works out.
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Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.
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In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.
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Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.
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I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
