R. M. Ballantyne Quotes
All truth is worth knowing and labouring after. No one can tell to what useful results the discovery of even the smallest portion of truth may lead.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
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A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.
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The whole world seemed to be quiet and calm and I wanted to be the world and feel like that.
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All truth is worth knowing and labouring after. No one can tell to what useful results the discovery of even the smallest portion of truth may lead.
