Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes
In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.
Hugh MacDiarmid
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Carine Roitfeld
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
Kate Voegele
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
Kate Walsh
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
Zaha Hadid
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
Maeve Binchy
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
Raghuram Rajan
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Xun Kuang
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We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?
Victoria Moran
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A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
Ada Lovelace
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
Alfred Korzybski
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The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
Daniel Hannan
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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
Paul Theroux
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
M. John Harrison
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There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
Unita Zelma Blackwell
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I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.
Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
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I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
Boris Johnson
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In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.
Hugh MacDiarmid
