Jasper Fforde Quotes
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
Jasper Fforde
Quotes to Explore
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Here's ivy! - take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.
Jesse McCartney
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
James Heckman
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I went and took it to the label, and they loved it, so we put it on the record.
Jason Aldean
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I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.
Nicki Minaj
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Whether or not Saddam is implicated directly in the anthrax attacks or the horrors of September 11, he is, by any common definition, a terrorist who must be removed.
Joe Lieberman
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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso
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When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
Erykah Badu
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Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze ...
Robert Frost
