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• The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • House
  • Small

• One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

  

  Daniel Inouye
  • World
  • Question
  • Study

• Growing up, I was taught a man's word is his bond.

  

  Logan Mankins
  • Up
  • Growing

• I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • Time
  • Law

• Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Mexico

• Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.

  

  Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
  • Men
  • Reading
  • Joy

• When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Being
  • Crowd
  • Concert

• You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?

  

  Ben Miller
  • People
  • Different
  • Realise

• When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.

  

  Daniel Pearce
  • Life
  • Good
  • Brother

• You can make the best show in the world, but if people don't actually turn it on and see it, they'll never know it's the best show.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • People
  • World
  • Turns

• ... it's pointless to think in moral terms when everything is permissible. We have become the people we detest. We have lost the capacity to imagine what is forbidden We have been freed, in other words, from our own hypocrisy.

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • Moral
  • Imagine
  • Hypocrisy

• We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Power
  • Bad

• The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Character
  • Power
  • Latin

• I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Band
  • Leave
  • Solo

• Never say "NO" to yourself, just try. You will never know what could happen.

  

  Barbara Padilla
  • Try
  • Never Say

• For the anarch, things are not so simple, especially when he has a background in history. If he remains free of being ruled, whether by sovereigns or by society, this does not mean that he refuses to serve in any way. In general, he serves no worse than anyone else, and sometimes even better, if he likes the game. He only holds back from the pledge, the sacrifice, the ultimate devotion. These are issues of metaphysical integrity....

  

  Ernst Junger
  • History
  • Society
  • Integrity

• I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Memories
  • Look Back
  • Reborn

• Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

  

  Alan Brennert
  • Move
  • Ahead
  • Look Back

• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  

  Satchel Paige
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