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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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
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Q4 May one believe only in God alone, or not?
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
