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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I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid
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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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If you love someone – deeply, in as true a way as you can – you will get hurt. People leave us and love falls apart, and when it does, it hurts. It should hurt. How can you not hurt when what you love is gone?
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Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
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Even with all the threats, it was still somehow inconceivable to me that someone would actually try to kill me. Harass me? Sure. Threaten me? Yeah. Sue me? If they could find a reason! But murder? That shit’s for the movies. People don’t kill people! I mean, they do, obviously, I’ve seen a newspaper. It says something, maybe, about how my mind works that I had received literal death threats but never considered that someone would try to kill me.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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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.
