Anya Seton Quotes
Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
Quotes to Explore
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.
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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
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Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
