Paul Scott Quotes
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.
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Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.
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The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.
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She wondered how soon after the first baby was born of the rape of a black woman by a white man did some slaver decide that light-skinned slaves were smarter and better by virtue of white blood? And how long after that had some black people decided to take advantage of that myth?
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Anyone with any sense knew that one of the best parts of the day was the hour just as the sun was rising.
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At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.
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What was one more skeleton in an already crowded closet?
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Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.
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It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.
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As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.
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Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
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The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
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If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience. I feel that I could never really say the depth of feeling or connection I feel to the natural world, which has made me.
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One always saw and sees through pretense.
