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Frances Burney Quotes

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: June 13, 1752 - January 6, 1840

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More Mankind May Must Them Despise

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

Change Light Myself Action Perfect

I am ashamed to say that both my children knew Stalin before they knew Thomas the Tank Engine.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Children I Am Say Ashamed Engine Am

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.

Time Me Story Think Trying You

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

Life Live Death Balance Way Talk

My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.

Family Wedding Friends Hold Affair

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

Life New Life Price New Sin Him

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

Joshua Oppenheimer

People Escape Movies Admire Tell

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Daily People Reality Way Human Stay

I don't think it's healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and thinking that they cannot talk about it with anybody, and no one wants to listen.

Experience Men Think Thinking Talk

There is a noticeable difference from a crowd surging against you and a crowd surging with you.

You Difference Against Crowd Surging

I don't believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn't kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.

Health Money Past Believe Rest Care

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Children Peace Mind Better Knowing

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