Shana Alexander Quotes

The Mormon belief system unites curiously American pairs of opposites. A relish for the dog-eat-dog practices of the marketplace goes hand in hand with the stern obligation to 'help thy neighbor.'

Shana Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1925 - June 23, 2005

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The Home Guards are required to come in at once and deliver up their arms, those who fail to do so will be regarded as enemies of the Government and treated accordingly.

John Hunt Morgan

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Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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Racing is a great sport, but we need people to come along and see that for themselves. Maybe they're not used to going racing or haven't been before, but I think people get a taste for it; they do come back.

Tony McCoy

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I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

Mona Eltahawy

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Joseph Conrad

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Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he was born.

Cindy Crawford

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Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Bryant H. McGill

LoveBeautyGoodnessSeek

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

Asa Butterfield

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

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What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

William Law

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It is in American and Afghan interests for the U.S. to stay in Afghanistan so it doesn't turn into Iraq circa 2014, with the Taliban controlling much of the country while hosting a strong presence of ISIS and al-Qaeda as well as every other jihadist group of note.

Peter Bergen

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I want to age with some dignity.

Pete Townshend

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