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The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

~Anne Perry

Topics: About Anything Believe Bring Devastating Even Even Worse Fighting Freedoms Great Loss Question Sacrifice Some War Which Will Worse Worth Would Yes I Believe

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Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose.

~Anne Reid

Topics: Abroad Always Been Before Big Boarding Boarding School Christmas Cooking Day Few Goose Great Had Itself Mummy Parents Presents Remember Sack School Very Young I Remember

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My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.

~Anne Reid

Topics: Always Because Big Disappointment Done Fat Faults First Great Julie Like Look Me Might Old One Time Realise Remotely Sadness See Then Think Time Too Used Why You Your

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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Complicated Condense Deal Emotions Enjoy Express Great Great Deal Hope Just Language Make Mean Play Poems Possible Real Simple Simply Them Truthful Try I Can

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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

~Anne Stevenson

Topics: Children Cottage Great Live Lucas Married Mountains North Peter Poet Sister Spend Time Usa Vermont Wales Where Who Writer

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: About Children Desire Discrimination Excite Great Growing Know Mistake Nonsense Observation Off Powers Put Them Things Think I Think

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I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: About Am Certain Child Deal Enter Gateway Great Great Deal Knowledge Love Mind More Obedience Think Thought Through Too Which Yes I Think I Am

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The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

~Anne Sullivan

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A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

~Anne Sweeney

Topics: Being Everyone Expecting Focus Given Going Good Good Leader Great Great Work Job Just Leader Making Produce Should Sure Tools Work

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If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

~Anne Sweeney

Topics: Because Been Day Excitement Great Great Day Great Ideas Hit Ideas Just Kept Lot Me Mind Night Occur Off Pad Paper Pen Team Things Turn Work Years You Your

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