Doris Lessing Quotes
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
Barry Eichengreen
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
Fedor Emelianenko
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
Saint Ambrose
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
Daisy Ashford
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
Zosia Mamet
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I'm competitive at everything.
Chuck Liddell
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.
Kenny Baker
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As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
Bill Williams
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Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.
Kathryn Minshew
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing