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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: About After Argument Been Case Could Died Even Friends Get Had Hard Her Herself Husband Lay Like Mother Much Name Our Out Own Raised Really Relatives She Someone Still Straight Third Trying Who Why Wondered Write Year

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A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Administration Bad Bad Government Case Effective First Good Government Inefficient Local People Prosper Second Suffer Very

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Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Active Atoms Between Body Case Dead Difference Force Latent Living Man Materialist Mysterious Only Only Difference Other Regards Science Temporarily United

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Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

~Annie Dillard

Topics: After Assume Audience Begin Case Consisting Could Die Dying Knew Patients Person Same Same Time Say Solely Soon Terminal Time Were Would Write Writing You

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My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.

~Ansel Elgort

Topics: Business Case Dad Failed Family Family Business Guess He Him Just Me Named Over Photographer Suppose Take Would

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Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

~Anthony Fauci

Topics: Case Continue Feel Fine Leadership Listen Make People Some Some People Trying You Your

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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

~Anthony Kennedy

Topics: Anew Case Constitutional Done Each Each Generation Freedom Generation Heritage Made Never Our Principles Work

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I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: Always Case Court Covering Decided Had Me Meaning Special Supreme Supreme Court

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The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

~Anthony Lewis

Topics: Barrier Case Official Papers Pentagon Silence Stands Today

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Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

~Anthony Mackie

Topics: Acting Because Case Just Lines Medium Much Only People Say Stand Stand Up Study Styles Techniques Think Up Were You

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