Amity Shlaes Quotes

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Amity Shlaes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

EducationFaithChildUncomfortable

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

Jim Talent

LeaderBusinessExperienceGovernment

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

LifeLoveWomenMenWomanMan

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Jesse Helms

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I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

Robert Mankoff

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Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

Anna D. Shapiro

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There are many fronts in the fight to make voting easier for all.

Amy Klobuchar

FightVotingMakeEasierMany

The way my parents brought me up to see the world is still absolutely key to what I am about. The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

Stella McCartney

NatureRespectI AmParentsWorld

The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.

St. Lucia

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If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

Trevor Paglen

YouPlaceCreateWillAnything

You are either going forward or you are not.

Mitchell Reiss

ForwardYouGoingEither

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

Dorothea Dix

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Entrepreneurship is one of the most important drivers for job creation. Moreover, social entrepreneurship offers not only a path for young people to transform their own lives, but also a way to empower others.

Arancha Gonzalez

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