Richard Flanagan Quotes

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

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Being a mom has made me feel more like a grown-up. I was always a kid at heart. It makes me feel like I did my purpose in life.

Jessie James Decker

LifeHeartPurposeMeMomFeel

The overwhelming majority of Muslims in this country and overseas are peaceful, law-abiding citizens. However, a small number of Muslims are members of fundamentalist sects sworn to the destruction of the United States.

Robert Mueller

SmallPeacefulCountryDestruction

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Ambrose Bierce

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The midpoint of the NBA season comes a little after the turn of the calendar year. As we settle into the new promises we've made to ourselves, basketball teams are busy evaluating how the promises they made to themselves over the summer are going.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

BasketballPromisesBusyYearSummer

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

Loretta Lynn

TimeProudThinkWaySameUs

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

Jonas Armstrong

LiveTimeThinkBagMeaningYou

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

Jonathan Haidt

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I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn't work out so well.

Diamond Dallas Page

WorkControlDestinyOutWellWWE

I grew up in West Philly, and I took an acting class at Temple University there. Then, after school, I moved to San Francisco.

Colman Domingo

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After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

Brandi Chastain

WorkThoughtSoccerBelievingBigger

The opportunity to represent your country at the Olympic Games is earned, not given.

Ashton Eaton

OpportunityCountryGamesEarned

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

Thomas S. Monson

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