Rudyard Kipling Quotes

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

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• I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

  

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• I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

  

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• I have proved myself as a complete package, so people can be more confident about investing in me, and I do expect a little more trust from the industry members.

  

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• I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

  

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• {The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

  

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• If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

  

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• Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

  

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• Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

  

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• There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

  

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• I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

  

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• One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.

  

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• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  

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• The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

  

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• If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.

  

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• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

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• And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Paying
  • Rid
  • Proved