Max Beerbohm Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.
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There are lots of things I would love to wear but wouldn't because I know they look stupid on me.
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And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
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I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
