Alec-Tweedie Quotes
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.Alec-Tweedie
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
Macaulay Culkin -
Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
E. Stanley Jones -
If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
Elie Wiesel -
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
Alan Greenspan -
We have a responsibility to be aware of others.
Angelina Jolie -
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.
Sahndra Fon Dufe
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I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.
Isaac Newton -
He is called the horse.
Anna Sewell -
The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.
Aaron Dontez Yates -
I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.
William Fitzgerald Harper -
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
David George Hogarth -
Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
Washington Allston
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Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain -
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
Diana Ross -
No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Noah Porter -
I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
I think it's great, ... I tell everybody that this is the best job in the world.
Chris Spielman -
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
Alec-Tweedie