Lester Cole Quotes
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.
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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
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Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
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Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.
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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
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I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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Confidence is a very fragile thing.
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Forgive your enemies, but first get even.
