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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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I don't think of myself as an explorer but as an athlete.
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People like me, DJs and producers, have a bigger say and a bigger voice than we've ever had before.
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Woodstock was the antithesis of what the music industry turned into. And if anyone tries to tie another Woodstock festival to an obnoxious sponsor, I'll be out protesting again.
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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.
