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Quotes by English Authors
"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."
"Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration."
"The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be."
"Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us."
"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work."
"I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time."
"Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness."
"I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills."
"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
"On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be."
"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."
"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise."
"More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution."
"The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck."
"Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one."
"I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession."
"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done."
"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
"What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war."
"The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears."
"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards."
"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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