E. W. Howe Quotes
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I'd planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.
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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
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Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.
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No single achievement in science is possible without the painstaking work of the many hundreds who have built the foundation on which all new work is based.
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I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
