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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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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
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We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.
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We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.
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I often think about the many remarkable things that my personal computer can do which I never ask it to do. I probably use a small fraction of its capabilities. I often wonder if the same dynamic occurs with our capacity for creativity.
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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.
