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- Nov 07, 2020
Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
- Hammered
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- Nov 07, 2020
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.
- Hospitality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from dominating the mortgage marketplace.
- Nov 07, 2020
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
- Climate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.
- Firearms
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donorschoose.org is the one place where somebody with $10 gets the same level of impact and feedback from the recipients that Bill Gates gets when he's making a million-dollar gift.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love DonorsChoose.org to become a place where teachers can post innovative, out-of-the-box projects that they can't get funding for traditionally.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've watched 'General Hospital' for 35 years. I grew up with it. It holds such a place in my heart.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.
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- Nov 07, 2020