David Attenborough Quotes
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
David Attenborough
Quotes to Explore
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
Walter Bagehot
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Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
M. J. Rose
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
Ingrid Betancourt
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A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.
Isaac D'Israeli
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.
Dan Simmons
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God.
Adoniram Judson
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Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas
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I thought if we could put our hard-working culture as traders into the asset management, it will be a great combination, and we did do that.
Ivan Glasenberg
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It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!
Kenneth Grahame
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I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
David Attenborough