Meghan Daum Quotes

As a mentor and an advocate, I've seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids - and adults, for that matter.

Meghan Daum

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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Jim Hightower

SuccessFinanceLivingMoreLevel

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.

Andy Richter

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India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

Anand Sharma

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Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

Sholom Aleichem

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I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.

Tom Ford

GucciFirstSoonAboutLessAfter

The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had during the entire time of his or her existence and brings into the classroom. A teacher concerned with developing humans affects the students quite differently from a teacher who never thinks about such things.

Rudolf Steiner

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Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.

Michael Rosbash

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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Lois Capps

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It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.

Deborah Bull

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The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.

Clint Smith

TruthPowerLieLiteratureWayMore

We will literally send a van and a photographer to the home of anybody that can say they can't get a picture made and a photo ID and we will do it... at the state's cost and the taxpayer cost and not at the individual cost.

Phil Gingrey

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Death is a dying industry with an economic phenomenon.

Perianne Boring

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