Agnes Macphail Quotes
I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.
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Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.
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I have had many Ashfield people say to me that they might not agree with my political views or my decisions but that they supported my right to be heard.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.
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I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
