Charles Dickens Quotes
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
Mahavira
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
Danica McKellar
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Ward Churchill
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
Hamid Karzai
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
Zac Goldsmith
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
Samantha Bee
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
Octavia Spencer
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
Tana French
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
Laura Ricketts
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
Mahmoud Abbas
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
Imelda Marcos
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
Igor Luksic
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An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.
Naveen Jain
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When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
Martin Amis
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One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.
Ray Bradbury
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Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.
Charles Dickens
