The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.


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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 't...
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, indepen...
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Theref...
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the class...
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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their ...
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The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest co...
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testab...
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, w...
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. ...
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Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christian...
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not...
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
NANCY MITFORD
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
NANCY MITFORD
Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD
I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,...
NANCY MEYERS
I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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My movies are not messed with by the studios.
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ...
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row ...
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You&#...
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all...
NANCY MEYERS
I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all...
NANCY MEYERS
I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Pr...
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
NANCY MCKEON
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
NANCY MCKEON
Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my caree...
NANCY MCKEON
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Depar...
NANCY MCKEON
One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Ear...
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I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially ...
NANCY MCKEON
At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
NANCY MCKEON
I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
NANCY MARCHAND
I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the the...
NANCY MARCHAND
Acting was something I had to do.
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