Clara Barton Quotes
Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Then I remembered the first lesson God had set me: 'Learn what dwells in man.' And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.
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Everything was fading, all the lights in the room going out. And the sun, too. It was all so odd, as if the whole world had stepped out, run away from her—left her. Alone. In the dark. God. Everything was as black as Andrés Segovia’s eyes.
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Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us.
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Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.
