Jane Austen Quotes

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

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• You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

  

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• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

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• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

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• The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
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• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

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• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

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• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
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• I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

  

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• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
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• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

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• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

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• Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

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• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
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• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

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• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
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• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

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• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
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• If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of course, you really want a boat. If you're a person who feels that with a yacht, everything will be all right, then you should do whatever you have to and get the yacht.

  

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• I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.

  

  M. C. Escher
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• I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying, "Oh, we can make do with this," or "We can problem-solve this." But John Neumeier's creative process was very different from piecemealing. It was the first time I understood I could build something larger and that it could be and should be supported.

  

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• People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

  

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• I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

  

  Jane Austen
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