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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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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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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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
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The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.
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I was truly sorry for Mr. Bryan. But I consoled myself by thinking of the years through which he had busied himself tormenting intelligent professors with impudent questions about their faith, and seeking to arouse the ignoramuses and bigots to drive them out of their positions.
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I would say there's about 10 people who know that, that my car was called 'Old Sock.'
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There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.
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Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
