Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.
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"You can educate a fool, but you can’t make him think. Education is too often about stuffing the brain rather than developing the mind."
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself.
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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
