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Then we can say at least the civil rights community tried to alert you.


Mary Frances Berry

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MARY FRANCES BERRY glue that holds all these things together.
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FRANCES CONROY It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what yo...
FRANCES CONROY As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your ...
FRANCES CONROY If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private ...
FRANCES CONROY It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don&#...
FRANCES CONROY Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
FRANCES BURNEY There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect...
FRANCES BURNEY I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history ...
FRANCES BURNEY We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't a...
FRANCES BURNEY The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
FRANCES BURNEY People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one fea...
FRANCES BURNEY To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I r...
FRANCES BURNEY A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment...
FRANCES BURNEY Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudent...
FRANCES BEINECKE I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw...
FRANCES BEINECKE When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
FRANCES BEINECKE We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food t...
FRANCES BEINECKE Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air sa...
FRANCES BEINECKE The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climat...
FRANCES BEINECKE Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt c...
FRANCES BEINECKE I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian...
FRANCES BEINECKE Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatur...
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