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Dorothea Dix Quotes

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887

Topics

Good Man Will Order Must Example

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

Andie MacDowell

Happiness Children Woman She Own

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

Character Story Back Never Always

The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

Moment End Seasons Fame Addiction

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Jonas Gahr Store

Change Political Creating New How

My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is your family.' I can remember my mom, she tells me this story: when I was little, I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Why isn't my skin the same color as yours?' She was like, 'Oh, you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.'

Colin Kaepernick

Family Time Parents Me Mom Looking

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

Class Read Aloud Encouraged

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

Alone Think Enough Attention Feeling

I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.

Work Yourself Think You Human Slave

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

Phyllis A. Whitney

Optimism Happy People End Feel Down

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

Myself Walk Support Writing Now Out

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.

Moment Better Anxiety Feeling Social

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.

Spring World Nonsense Everything CIA

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