Katharine Viner Quotes
The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I used to hunt and fish.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
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Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.
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The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.
