Ernest Bramah Quotes
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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War is over if you want it.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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If states do not act according to principles of justice, the injustices they perpetrate will harm not just other states but ultimately also their own national interest.
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I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
