John Buchan Quotes
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
Quotes to Explore
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
