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.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I always played to win.
Hansie Cronje
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
Tadashi Yanai
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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.
Federica Montseny
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama
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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.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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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.
Mara Liasson
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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.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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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.
Oliver Goldsmith
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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.
Frances Wright
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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.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Sam Wyly
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
Harold Pinter
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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.
Rand Paul
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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.
Yehuda Berg
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I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.
Quentin Tarantino
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
Berkeley Breathed
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All you need to do is to get clients in the hotel door; then they hand you their wallets for five days.
John Pritzker
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If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
William James
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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.
H. G. Wells