Sebastian Faulks Quotes
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
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As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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That's how it began. In those days, we had to lug around these enormous recorders and camera equipment and find a place to conceal them.
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One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.
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When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.
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Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.
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Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine.
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Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union.
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The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
