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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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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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
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I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
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Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting.
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Love is the most important ingredient to any meaningful relationship. It is fundamental to true significance. Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, and honor. They will pass away, but love remains. You can be fulfilled without these, but not without love.
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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.
