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Quotes by British Authors

"Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system."
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Steven Magee
"Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system."
"I advise people to be careful about taking advice from long term Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) victims. If they have had it for decades and have not cleared it up, then you can discount what they have to say regarding curing the condition. However, they are an excellent resource on the biological harm of electromagnetic fields (EMF), EMF avoidance and low EMF products."
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Steven Magee
"I advise people to be careful about taking advice from long term Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) victims. If they have had it for decades and have not cleared it up, then you can discount what they have to say regarding curing the condition. However, they are an excellent resource on the biological harm of electromagnetic fields (EMF), EMF avoidance and low EMF products."
"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
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Alan Bates
"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
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"If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends."
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Virginia Woolf
"If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends."
"They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'"
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Albert Finney
"They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'"
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"She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting."
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Jane Austen
"She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting."
"Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can."
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Siobhan Fahey
"Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can."
"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."
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John B. S. Haldane
"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."
"There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands."
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George Borrow
"There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands."
"Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality."
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Sam Mendes
"Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality."
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"To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing."
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Jane Austen
"To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing."
"More people deserted our party and we have never recovered."
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Denis Thatcher
"More people deserted our party and we have never recovered."
"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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Patrick Macnee
"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."
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Colin Baker
"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."
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"I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it."
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Adam Rickitt
"I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it."
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"Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there."
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J. G. Ballard
"Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there."
"During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine."
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Steven Magee
"During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine."
"Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!"
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Stephen Richards
"Stop being a mystery, discover yourself!"
"Happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you."
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Jeanette Winterson
"Happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you."
"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."
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Ralph Fiennes
"There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming."
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"I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy."
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S. A. Tawks
"I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy."
"Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is."
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Kate Bush
"Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is."
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"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."
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Samuel Butler
"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."
"Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people?You decide!"
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Anthony T. Hincks
"Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people?You decide!"
"Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her."
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Chloe Thurlow
"Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and absorbs his oils and essence. A part of him enters her and becomes a part of her."
"The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families."
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John Freeman
"The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families."
"Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse."
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Stephen Richards
"Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse."
"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
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Lionel Blue
"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
"Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place."
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Eric Clapton
"Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place."
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
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Arthur Conan Doyle
"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
"Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless."
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Stephen Richards
"Time and space have no meaning, just as your conscious thoughts are meaningless."
"For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity."
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Gavin Rossdale
"For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity."
"Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives."
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S. A. Tawks
"Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives."
"I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria."
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Sting
"I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria."
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"Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well."
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Jane Austen
"Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well."
"The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes. Say that the moment is a combination of thought; sensation; the voice of the sea. Waste, deadness, come from the inclusion of things that don't belong to the moment; this appalling narrative business of the realist: getting on from lunch to dinner: it is false, unreal, merely conventional."
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Virginia Woolf
"The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes. Say that the moment is a combination of thought; sensation; the voice of the sea. Waste, deadness, come from the inclusion of things that don't belong to the moment; this appalling narrative business of the realist: getting on from lunch to dinner: it is false, unreal, merely conventional."
"The gift blesses the giver."
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Hilary Mantel
"The gift blesses the giver."
"I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should."
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Jeanette Winterson
"I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should."
"Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people."
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Graham Chapman
"Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people."
"Avoid working in windowless environments for good health."
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Steven Magee
"Avoid working in windowless environments for good health."
"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."
"We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody."
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Bob Anderson
"We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody."
"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
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Derek Jarman
"All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity."
"Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep."
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Lord Byron
"Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep."
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"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
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William Gilbert
"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
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Evan Parker
"Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language."
"Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him."
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C. S. Lewis
"Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him."
"A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced."
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Graham Greene
"A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced."
"The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history."
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Steven Magee
"The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history."
"I appreciated art, long before I could produce it."
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
"I appreciated art, long before I could produce it."
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