H. G. Wells Quotes
Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I always played to win.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble out the door, get into my car and go wherever it is that we're shooting. You have breakfast on set.
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As a woman, it's nice to hear people at the stage door say, 'I didn't even know! She's a woman, and that's the most amazing thing'.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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The internet is not for sissies.
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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
