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Washington Irving Quotes

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859

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Home Discipline Men Who Most Abroad

When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.

Moment Now Become More Audience See

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

Politics Well Aware Pragmatism

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Andrew Garfield

Myself Losing Want Keep

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

Life Me My Life Envy Say Hard

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

Today Mistake Country Canada Been

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

Tommy Lee Jones

Life Yourself Think Comedy You Find

The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.

Hope Walk People Despair Leave

In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.

Truth Culture Beginning Effort Speak

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Positive Work Happy Mind Thoughts

It's a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it's difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that notoriety and fame, and things can go really wrong. But I had a terrific family and grew up very normal in Phoenix.

Peter Billingsley

Family Child World Wrong Go Fame

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

Welcome Think Help Stop Want Come

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Time Day Government People World Go

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