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Quotes by British Authors
"Why should we change that which makes us unique?"
"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
"I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner."
"You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way."
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
"Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you."
"The waste of any resource is unnecessary and deplorable."
"The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. "
"I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men."
"You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about."
"If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust."
"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
"They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it."
"Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it."
"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
"I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now."
"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"
"Character and purpose are directly linked to confidence and conviction. What links them? Courage " to be oneself, no matter what others might say."
"A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow."
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."
"Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly."
"If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans."
"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."
"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations."
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
"Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope."
"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
"There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do."
"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
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