Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes
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No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.
Carl Linnaeus
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I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you
Karuho Shiina
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Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.
Emile Chartier
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Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
Niall Williams
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I think I'm a guy who is going to come in and work hard from Day One.
Ezekiel Elliott
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The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?
Reinhard Bonnke
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
W. Bruce Cameron
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
Ian Lustick
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
Oprah Winfrey
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Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.
Stevie Wonder
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The prevailing mood in my country is one of optimism and opportunity. Scotland is restless for change and keen to expand its influence and to reach out beyond our shores.
Alex Salmond
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Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
Hugh MacDiarmid
