John Major Quotes
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.
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When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
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I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
