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Owning It Quotes (page 36)

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. Tahar Ben Jelloun
Thomas Jefferson quote: "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own..."
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street. Sun Ra
Dave Barry quote: "It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts..."
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. Dave Barry
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. Robert Green Ingersoll
Andrew Jackson quote: "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often..."
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson
Ernie Banks quote: "It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy..."
It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going. Ernie Banks
Tammy Baldwin quote: "It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so..."
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. Tammy Baldwin
Sebastian Bach quote: "It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days...."
It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one. Sebastian Bach
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. Brian Aldiss
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters. Jessica Alba
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Mortimer Adler
Ansel Adams quote: "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to..."
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams
Diane Abbott quote: "It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own."
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own. Diane Abbott
[T]he act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual... Philip Pullman

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