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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Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
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It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.
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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
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Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
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I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
