Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
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I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
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I want to play more festivals.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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If you're going to be free! You're going to have to free YOURSELF!
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.
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Wage concessions are difficult to quantify, since their magnitude depends on many operating variables.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
