The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
#quotes #dana-perino #mother #business

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Collectively with my design team we spent time working on the feel, fit and style to ensure the product is not only something I would wear but one which I would be proud to put my name to. I always want to challenge myself and this was such a rewarding experience for me. I'm very happy with the end result and I hope H&M's male customers will be as excited as I am. ~David Beckham
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~English Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
#quotes #nicolas-cage #acting #tv #entertainment #music

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. ~Danish Proverb
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I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination. ~Ric Keller
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If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China's emissions would replace America's emissions in 12 years. ~Christopher Monckton
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