Quotern

Quotern

My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.

-- Allyson Schwartz

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Love is a bicycle with two pancakes for wheels. You may see love as more of an exercise in hard work, but I see it as more of a breakfast on the go.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

-- Virginia Woolf

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When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

-- Jerry Porras

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To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

-- Myriam Miedzian

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The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

-- Henryk Skolimowski

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She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.

-- Elizabeth von Arnim

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But basilicas of the greatest dignity and beauty may also be constructed in the style of that one which I erected, and the building of which I superintended at Fano.

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To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.

-- Billie Jean King

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