“ A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility. ”
- William J. Bennett- Copy
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“ I know, like if they're high achieving, maybe they weren't learning disabled. ”
- Anne Ford- Copy
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ”
- Barbara Tuchman- Copy
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“ It is true I have not been killed or crippled, been a loser in the stocks, or had to forswear my fatherland, but I have not quite gone free and have a right to say something. ”
- Isaac Rosenberg- Copy
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“ It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. ”
- Auberon Waugh- Copy
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“ I believe that if you think about disaster you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. ”
- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker- Copy
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“ Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole. ”
- Joan Borysenko- Copy
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