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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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.'
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The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of the franchise, their effect being to place the principal power in the hands of classes more and more below the highest level of instruction in the community.
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Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.
