Max Beerbohm Quotes
She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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Think and grow rich.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
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For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.
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I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.
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Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
