John Buchan Quotes
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
Dan Gelber
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
Haley Bennett
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
Salman Rushdie
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
Tagg Romney
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
P. J. O'Rourke
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
Rakul Preet Singh
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
Vin Scully
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
Octavia Spencer
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If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.
Irving Kristol
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Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
Georg Brandes
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
John Desmond Bernal
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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
Maria Montessori
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The apparent widespread abuse of loans provided through the Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief Act is nothing short of an outrage.
Olympia Snowe
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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
John Buchan
