#oft

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. ↗

— Roma Downey

#assumption #child #children #cultures #fact

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic. ↗

— Robert Duvall

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The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#drowned #get #just #made #more

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#die #fear #instead #make #many

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and." ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth. ↗

— Charles Edison

#before #commonwealth #even #how #issues

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#always #because #bring #children #fly

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

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