George Horace Lorimer Quotes
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
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'If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.'
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Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I've always been pretty self-sufficient. I never had to borrow money from my mum, even in the early days.
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I like to dream about Portugal, and it's less easy when you are there.
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
