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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

• Prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

  

  Bette Lord
  • Fate
  • Confirm
  • Prophecies

• I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Friends
  • Laws
  • Goethe

• The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

  

  Albert Camus
  • War
  • Storm
  • Train

• Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

  

  Alfred Worden
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Look Back

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

  

  Satchel Paige
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