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Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

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Man Find Know Glory Write Out

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

Joan Collins

School Sister Writing Class Top Lit

I'm just writing a story that I want to read.

Jean M. Auel

Writing Story Want Just Read

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.

Tom Shales

Stars American Comedy Drama Way

I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.

Michel Faber

Writing Think Care You Serious

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

Monica

Mother Power Day People Me Negative

I've been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can't imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.

Jay Parini

Knowledge Me Small Colleagues Mean

I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.

Doug Jones

Good Me You Conversation Early Said

Get your dog spayed or neutered. That's one of the first things that you should go and do.

China Anne McClain

Dog You Go First Things Get

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

Chen Shui-bian

People Me Details Problem Guilty

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

Clemence Poesy

Think Uniform Kind Comfortable Feels

I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.

Chubby Checker

Farm Born Poor Kid South Carolina

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Antonia Fraser

Good People Good And Evil Evil Moral