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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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
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I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
