Stephen Fry Quotes
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
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Just because you become a mother, it doesn't mean you lose who you are.
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We lose all that time which we might employ better.
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One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
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I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
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He who hoards much loses much.
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
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Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
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I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
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Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.
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If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
