Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills. I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. ~Britt Ekland
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A courtyard common to all will be swept by none. ~Chinese Proverb
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
#quotes #michel-de-certeau #past #history #stories

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
#quotes #tunku-abdul-rahman #knowledge

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more "dates" than me. ~George Hamilton
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Need teaches a plan. ~Irish Proverb
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
#quotes #lady-randolph-churchill #women #beauty

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. ~Mary Lynn Rajskub
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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I am usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~Hope Davis
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
#quotes #h-p-lovecraft #earth #life #pessimism

Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis. ~Jane Fonda
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
#quotes #tom-robbins #memories #personality

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
#proverbs #grandparents