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Quotes by British Authors
"A normal fighter in the street fights in a different way than a disciplined boxer, but a boxer is from the other world, it's a big difference. A boxer can throw a six-inch punch. A six-inch punch can knock you clean down. I'm very wary of those boxers, I can tell you. If you get a boxer that can street fight and he mixes it together then it makes a lethal combination! I mixed boxing and street fighting in to a cocktail and when I knocked them down I kept them down by use of the boot."
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
"The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with the thought of a bygone era ultimately subverts any notion of "chronological snobbery". Reading texts from the past makes it clear that what we now term "the past" was once "the present", which proudly yet falsely regarded itself as having found the right intellectual answers and moral values that had eluded its predecessors."
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
"Conflict is the beginning of consciousness."
"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
"He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done."
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
"I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable."
"The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular."
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."
"Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous."
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it."
"If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets."
"The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven."
"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."
"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything."
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
"My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made."
"Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight."
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility."
"Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!"
"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good."
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