Angelina Grimke Quotes
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.
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My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
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It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing in our favor since the news of our late successes.
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The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.
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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
