Marion Milner Quotes
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure.
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The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:
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Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.
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Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.
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I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
