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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Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.
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We lose all that time which we might employ better.
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When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.
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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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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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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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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
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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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His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.
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Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.
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My favoured temple is an humble heart.
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Over the last 14 years I have actually helped over 100 people disengage from the same movement that I was a part of.
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
