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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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.
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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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A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
