W. H. Auden Quotes
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
