E. W. Howe Quotes
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
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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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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
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Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.
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I'm focused on bringing real change to Washington because the career politicians have screwed things up so badly.
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Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.
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I think it's really good for a family or children to have a dog, cat, bird or whatever to grow up with.
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Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
