Christopher Gist Quotes

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.

Christopher Gist

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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

Jessye Norman

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If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if she does so much toward making her son what she would wish him to be - how essential is it that she should be fitted for the beneficial performance of these important duties.

John Marshall

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People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

Robert Kiyosaki

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We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

Jeff Bridges

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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Jean Piaget

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When you expand a business as fast as McDonald's did, part of the strength you have is the process and the efficiency.

Steve Easterbrook

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We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Tom Scholz

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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

Tom Stoppard

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I have three brothers; I'm the youngest of four.

Tom Felton

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For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Mike Davidson

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Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Liza Minnelli

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'Me Like Yuh' got, like, 20 million plays on Spotify.

Jay Park

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