Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.

Joel Salatin

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This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.

John Hawley

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I had the traditional print view of TV journalists: Those are pretty people who get paid a lot of money and don't do any work. It turned out I was wrong.

John King

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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

John Tukey

BetterWrongQuestionRightAlways

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

Steven Pinker

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I can't retire.

Roger Daltrey

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Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

ActingKnowRightJustKnewHow

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Jordan Peterson

I AmLanguageGoingAmDetest

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

Chris Lowe

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Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

David Shields

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Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

Arthur Levitt

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