Anna Garlin Spencer Quotes
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
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The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
