Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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Ask for what you want.Ask for help,ask for input,ask for advice and ideas- but be afraid to ask.
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
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The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
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Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
