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Quotes by English Authors
"Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me."
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."
"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."
"People want security in this insecure world."
"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"
"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends."
"And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the living winds, which flowLike waves above the living waves below.-I have sent books and music there, and allThose instruments with which high spirits callThe future from its cradle, and the pastOut of its grave, and make the present lastIn thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die,Folded within their own eternity."
"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
"There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher."
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
"My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really."
"Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later."
"My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure."
"I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes."
"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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