Ehud Olmert Quotes
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
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I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
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As many of you are aware, I had been anxiously awaiting the addition of a new baby to my life. The baby has been born and both mother and child are in good health.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
