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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Care
  • Chicago

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Real
  • Father
  • Career

• I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Day
  • Training

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Free
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Support
  • Government
  • Period

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fight
  • Ring
  • Deadlines

• Say yes to everything.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Everything
  • Say
  • Yes

• Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Pressure
  • Singer
  • Yes

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

  

  Rain
  • Myself
  • Competition
  • Planning

• My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Achievement
  • Class
  • Size

• Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.

  

  Paulo Coelho

• There is nothing new on earth For a person who lives long and experiences much. In my years of youthful wandering I have seen crystallized people.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • New
  • Experiences
  • Wandering

• In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • Me
  • Environment

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Athlete

• We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

  

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