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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
Frances Mayes
Me
World
Magic
Most
Venice
Still
Just
Place
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
Frances Mayes
Work
Future
Enjoy
Everyday
Some
Driven
Put
Day-To-Day
Priorities
Goal
Italians
Off
Really
Right
Enjoyment
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
Frances Mayes
Food
Eyes
Plants
First
Big
Healthy
Way
Put
Budding
Opened
First Thing
Got
Italy
Did
Going
The First Thing
Different
Little
Them
Turn
Bushes
Cook
Ground
Europe
Different Way
Thing
Watch
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
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