Nancy Willard Quotes
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.
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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
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Cats are only human, they have their faults.
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So we're going to keep getting mega-hits like this?" Tomas's dark brown eyes sparkled as they landed on Sienna's down-bent head. "Not that I don't appreciate it, sugar, but it did make me 'hyper,' according to my mother.
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We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.
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Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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Southern Union is buying lines in a region that may have higher production in coming decades. The newest gas-shale play that has the industry most excited is Barnett Woodford in West Texas, just west of the Permian.
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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.
