Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
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I'm easy to hate.
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My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!
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Our trouble is that we have ignored and thus feel insecure in the enormous spectrum of love which lies between rather formal friendship and genital sexuality, and thus are always afraid that once we overstep the bounds of formal friendship we must slide inevitably to the extreme of sexual promiscuity.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.
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All i would like to say is that I'm rich and you're not.
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I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!
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None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
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I was kind of reared by television, but the BBC, it still had that thing - and people are always invoking that kind of Reithian idea - where you could learn stuff from it. If you put a kid in front of a telly now to be reared by that you'd just have a jibbering idiot, you know what I mean? Just adverts for a start. It's almost like the programmes are an afterthought, the real business of this channel is to sell you things and we're just going to space out those announcements with some crap to watch.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
