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 be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
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People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
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If research is society’s investment in its future, our society does not prioritize the future of autistic people.
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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.
