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Quotes by English Authors
"I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer."
"Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying."
"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."
"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
"I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems."
"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
"If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
"Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit."
"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."
"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation."
"The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting."
"Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated."
"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."
"If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic."
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
"It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up."
"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area."
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