Robert Walpole Quotes
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
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I hate to cook and love to eat.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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When you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.
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Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
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To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
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Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.
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We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.
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One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.
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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
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The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.
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Let men be compelled to wear our dress for awhile and we should soon hear them advocating a change.
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We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.
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The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense.
