Cotton Mather Quotes

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

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• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  

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• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

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• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
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• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

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• I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

  

  Earl Scruggs
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• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • School
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• It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

  

  Oliver Tambo
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• I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.

  

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• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
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• I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • World
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• No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
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• I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  

  Patrick Henry
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  • Health

• I didn't like Jaya's Hazaar Chaurasi ki Ma, though I did like her performance. I felt the movie was too verbose. I thought why did they have to make a film? They could have simply written an article.

  

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• God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
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• Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

  

  Cotton Mather
  • Children
  • Devil
  • Prayerlessness