Peter Morton Quotes
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
Ma Jian
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
Walter Isaacson
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People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
Joanne Rowling
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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
Walter Ulbricht
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Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, `We're going to wipe you off the planet.'
Barack Obama
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I placed a jar in Tennessee And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose upon it, And sprawled around, no longer wild.
Wallace Stevens
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But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
Albert Einstein
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Funniest thing happened though, you wouldn't believe it, ha, the mannequins came to life. I went insane.
Drew Carey
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In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.
George Carey
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Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.
Witold Gombrowicz
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I can't cook a thing.
Peter Morton