"I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods."

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Louisa May Alcott

“God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.”
“Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.”
“Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'”
“Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.”
“There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculate or encourage polygamy... And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.”
“I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.”
“Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.”

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