Ernest Bevin Quotes
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
Quotes to Explore
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.
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There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.
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The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
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Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.
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Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.
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To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
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The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.
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We cannot decide for the American people.
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Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
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A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
