Ernest Bevin Quotes
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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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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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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Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.
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If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
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You figure you train all year for this, you're so nervous, so you might as well stand on the ice and enjoy it for more than five seconds. I realize everything I have been through and what I have done, appreciate the audience. It's nice to have just 30 seconds of relief.
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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.
