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“It's very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied - someone that you trust. You should never be quiet when you are being bullied or when you see someone being bullied. It's so im...”
“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.”
“God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.”
“I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.”
“Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.”
“No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.”
“Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.”
“Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That'...”
“Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.”
“I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.”
“Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that...”
“You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.”
“Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.”
“Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.”
“Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.”
“In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.”
“And you shouldn't choose to care about someone. There shouldn't be a time and a place for it. Either you do or you don't. Don't try. He looks off. There can be falseness in trying to do something t...”
“Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all rightand then apologizing. Inconsistent, Father.He shuffled back and forth across the room again, and his pain ...”
“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.”
“They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of ...”
