Dolly Parton Quotes
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
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And dost thou seek to find the one in two? Only upon the old can build the new; The symbol which you seek is found in you.
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God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.
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I hate auditions.
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Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.
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I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.
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If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
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It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.
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In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.
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If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.
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I think if we stay healthy, we've got a chance to play in that game. Because we have under 30 kids, they have to stay hungry.
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If there's a heaven, I hope to hell I go!
