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Quotes by British Authors
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
"We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs."
"If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures."
"I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments."
"The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them."
"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."
"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
"You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy."
"There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man."
"All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts."
"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."
"It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it."
"With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus."
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
"What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong."
"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."
"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide."
"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration."
"Everyone has a good heart. It's our mind which gets polluted by so much negativity from the external world."
"In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times."
"There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I've been writing recipes - although I'm not vegetarian myself - I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home."
"The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition."
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
"The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone."
"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."
"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout."
"I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films."
"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."
"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
"When discharging industrial gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy, we never wore breathing respirators that fed us oxygenated air at above the legally required 19.5% oxygen levels."
"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale."
"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
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