Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.
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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.
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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.
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I really like Miranda Lambert. She has a great voice.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
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Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.
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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
