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Quotes by English Authors
"In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize."
"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
"Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me."
"I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession."
"Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence."
"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
"The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
"The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature."
"How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons."
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."
"Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century."
"It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends."
"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."
"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."
"Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."
"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."
"A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."
"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."
"So use your own property as not to injure that of another."
"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."
"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
"... I have always thought of Christmas-time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."
"The first question they ask is: "Why was he eternally surprised?"And they were told: "Wen considered the nature of time and understood the universe is, instant by instant, re-created anew. Therefore, he understood, there is, in truth, no Past, only a memory of the Past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."
"More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU."
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