James Hilton Quotes
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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I don't have proper places to run.
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It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
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Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!
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Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but—further—she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, I heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face: it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral;
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I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having your hand stamped so that you don't have to come back but you can come back.
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It's great that the Internet can enhance and speed up our communications and that computers can do all the things they do. It's fabulous. At the same time, it changes our priorities. For example, before I would always remember people's telephone numbers and now I don't know anyone's number. So what happens if computer systems go down but you still have landlines? Well, I couldn't call anyone because I don't know anyone's number.
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
