Ernest Bevin Quotes

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Ernest Bevin

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• People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

  

  Barney Frank
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• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
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• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

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• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

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• We will not lose this election for lack of money.

  

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• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
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• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  

  Larry Merchant
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• The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

  

  Irwin Redlener
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• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

  

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• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

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• Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  

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• It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

  

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• I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

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• If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?

  

  Walter Raleigh
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• As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?

  

  Origen
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• That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

  

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• We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

  

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• In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

  

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• There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.

  

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• Whenever I record more than two or three layers, it starts to get cluttered up, and you can't hear the cut of the guitars as good. It's hard to get four guitars to hit at exactly the same time and keep the attack tight.

  

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• On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there and it wasnt.

  

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• There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • War
  • Protection
  • Folk