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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot. Frances Mayes
Family Down Ran Way Born Cotton Town Felt Spot South Georgia Up Fitzgerald Times Mayor Grew Grandfather Rooted Many Mill Deeply
Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking. Frances Mayes
Family You Pool Living Way Recognize Eyebrow Gene Having Small Lift Small Town Town Understand Italian South Georgia Walking Length Lived Neck
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses. Frances Mayes
Life Time Best Thought Half Too Else Spend Books Way Easier Would Would-Be Best Way Restoring Architect Seemed Write Never Idea Like Houses Although Got Anything Anything Else Much Next Next Life Fun
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. Frances Mayes
Art Food History People Architecture Think Stayed Because Italy Initially
In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things. Frances Mayes
People America Just Dislike Straightforward Things
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. Frank Moore Colby
God Cares Anchor Cast Holds Your
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. Frank Moore Colby
Life Natural People Clever Pleasure Seem Relish Feel Clever People Always Answering Go Questions Chief Them Asking
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. Frank Moore Colby
Angry Anger Feeling Situation More Generally Disagreeable Particular Know Without Left Than Anybody
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? Frank Moore Colby
Day Great Man Heart Down Every Ought Sun Inquisitive Shadow Cast Shall Through He Adventure Longer Hour Excuse Without Continuance His Question Dies Every Man
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. Frank Moore Colby
Alone Too Out Carry Would Would-Be Always Persist Any Committee Anything Which Us Reasonable
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind. Frank Moore Colby
You Progress Mind Changing Consolation Without Little Mankind Fun
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. Frank Moore Colby
Best Men Looking Top Some Remaining Had Bottom Simply Reasons Found Ever
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. Frank Moore Colby
Art Nature Whatever Atrocious He New Child York New York Regard Wholesome Honest
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. Frank Moore Colby
Man People Thought Other Studied Merely New Know Does Closely Who Thinker
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. Frank Moore Colby
Man Will Consider City Triumph Steal Merely Intellectual Efforts Intense Mayor After Choose Who Large Suffrage
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise. Frank Moore Colby
Politics Good Wise Humble Otherwise Criminal Hopes Where Place Modest Requirements Strangely Who Ridiculously
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. Freda Adler
Experience Become Our Diminished Perceptions Fade Part Major Because Permanent Movements Social Landscape Social Movements Eventually
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler
Crime Power Group Prohibit Philosophical Stripped Anything Ethical Chooses
I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Work Hard Work People Nothing Study Replace Going Successful Hard Who Guarantee
Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Time Technology College Girl Before Thinking Enough Enough Time Spent Possible See More Tend Through Computer Computing Involved Boy How Coming Encourage Information Information Technology Warlike Games Violence Career
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Mathematics Home Parents Reading Both Up Fortunate Who Grow Grow Up Enjoyed Hardworking Two
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Life Balance Science Women Problem Will Men Men And Women Computer Science Engineering Find Percentage Small Computer Between Major Major Problem Sciences Very Reasonable
It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Work Education Relationships Students Part Substantive Your
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
People College Become Young Public Schools Ways Find Colleges Involved Schools Wanted Public Young People Help Prepare Universities
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind. Gary L. Francione
Food Entertainment Degree Animals Own Differences Increasing Our Recognition Kind Moral About Both Civilization Part Development Between Most Concern Reflects Clothing Experiments Social Use Humans
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. Gary L. Francione
Characteristics Evolution Mental Absent Proposition Theory Wholly Humans Inconsistent
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