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Quotes by British Authors
"Besides, I seemed to hold two lives-the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter."
"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame."
"Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."
"Idris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside."
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
"Conflict is the beginning of consciousness."
"They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad."
"He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes."
"Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions."
"Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false."
"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."
"Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly."
"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!"
"Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell."
"Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen."
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
"It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy."
"Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars that they can completely disconnect from the electrical utility."
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish."
"To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time."
"The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name."
"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."
"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
"A lot of newspapers say, Terence Stamp is playing himself and we're as bored as he is."
"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."
"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
"There is nothing you lack and all you will find, we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by."
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."
"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
"The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians."
"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."
"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works."
"Modify the environmental radiation and you will change the course of evolution."
"_____________________I'm lost for words."
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."
"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
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