Own Quotes
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But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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Those who own much have much to fear.
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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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You never toot your own horn.
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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.
