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Quotes by English Authors
"Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you."
"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."
"It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together."
"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
"Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us."
"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."
"I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them."
"So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them."
"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."
"It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
"Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice."
"A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?"
"The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion."
"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future."
"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."
"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."
"I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel."
"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it."
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
"I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways."
"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
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