Freya Stark Quotes
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
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Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.
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About 3 million IVF babies have been born since Louise Brown's birth in 1978. Bizarrely, when this life-giving treatment was first considered, it was massively controversial. A storm of vitriolic protest came from many religious leaders, journalists, politicians, regrettably even other scientists and doctors.
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... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
