John Boyd Orr Quotes
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
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Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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Just know what's inside your food.
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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?
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I'm mortified to have to pay 50%! While I use the NHS, I can't use public transport any more. Trains are always late, most state schools are shit, and I've gotta give you, like, four million quid – are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from the album 19, I was ready to go and buy a gun and randomly open fire.
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
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Hale looked at Macey, who added, "Seven minutes since shots fired." "Kat what's the emergency response tie in Midtown Manhattan?" "Not long enough if they want a clean exit," she told him. Macey hadn't heard Kat's words, but she looked at Hale like she'd read his mind.
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With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... But we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
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False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.
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I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
