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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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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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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A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
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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 deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn the ball over.
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The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.
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But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.
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I'm not going to judge what I do.
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
