Ernest Bevin Quotes
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
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It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.
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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.
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There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.
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I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
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I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.
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I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.
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Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
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Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.
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I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.
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Saddam was the creation of outsiders. He was created, strengthened, and kept by international force. He is like a man on a tree and the tree will be cut: he will fall down. The formation of a new front will inspire the Iraqi people to intensify the struggle, to give heart to people who before were faced with the whole world supporting Saddam.
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I just want to keep improving, to keep getting better.
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Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.
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When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
