Quote by Meghan ORourke
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek unders

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. – Meghan ORourke

Other quotes by Meghan ORourke

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I dont know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. – Meghan ORourke

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Christmas
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Its all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength. – Meghan ORourke

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strength
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. Its like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. – Meghan ORourke

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Food
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Knowledge
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. – Louis Pasteur

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Knowledge

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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Knowledge

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be. – Origen

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Knowledge

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. – Amy Waldman

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Knowledge

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Listening to my regular favourites – Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on – I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world. – Jane Asher

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Beauty

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes its so incredible, its unbelievable. – Tom Landry

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Sports

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. – Carroll Quigley

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War

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards. – Chris Van Hollen

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Failure