Matthew Arnold Quotes
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One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.
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Life is all about sharing. If we are good at something, pass it on. That is the pleasure I get from teaching - whether it is television or books. We should all share.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
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Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
