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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Asked Bloom Books Bunch Contemporary Everything Found Given Had Harold Having Him His Just Late Life Me Novels Read Shall Where Which Wisdom

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Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

~Amos Lee

Topics: Across Always Aunts Board Everybody Father Given Lot Love Me Mother Uncles

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Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I am thankful to God for that.

~Amruta Khanvilkar

Topics: Actor Am Boost Career Dance Established Films Given God Identity Me Thankful Though I Am

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I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Also Anyone Believe Chinese Coupled Daughters Day Even Ever Expectations Extremely Gift Given Greatest Greatest Gift Having High High Expectations Husband Immigrant Love Loving Me My Own Myself Own Parents Raise Raised Same Strict Though Try Two Way Why I Was Raised I Believe I Believe That

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I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Actually Anyone Daughters Ever Expectations Feel Gift Given Greatest Greatest Gift Had Having High High Expectations How Kind Life Like Little Lot Lots Me My Life Now Opportunities Parents Same Say Tried Two Why Would I Tried I Feel

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Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

~Amy Grant

Topics: Any Anybody Ever Given Gone Hard Hard Time How How Much Idea Information Life Like Matter Much No Idea Outsider Perception Person Through Time

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But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go.

~Amy Grant

Topics: Answer Any Asked Deal Deep Expecting Given Her Kind Million Now Quarter Questions Record Record Deal Records Sell Some Tell Theological Would You

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I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.

~Amy Klobuchar

Topics: Appreciates Awesome Branches Confirmed Constitution Different Different Roles Each Given Government Gravity Justice Looking Office Provides Respects Responsibility Roles She Three Understands Very Who Will

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If the past is an indication, when women are given a job to do in Congress, they get it done.

~Amy Klobuchar

Topics: Congress Done Get Given Indication Job Past Women Women Are

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I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

~Amy Purdy

Topics: Chance Day Days Doctors Felt Find Five Flu Given Had Hospital Hours Less Life Like Living Old One Day Out Percent Support Than Took Within Years 24 Hours

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