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“What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.”
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“But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.”
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“Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 476), 1895.
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“I love dogs because they're so adaptable.”
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“...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.”
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“Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?”
Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1879). “Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel”, London, W. Mullan and son
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“The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.”
Source : "Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg". www.foxnews.com. August 13, 2005.
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“I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.”