Jane Austen Quotes
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
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Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.
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It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.
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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
