Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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My father was a lawyer.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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Religion dies hard in the Irish.
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St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
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Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
