Iain Pears Quotes
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.
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Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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I argued that the human race should have known it was in for trouble, at least we in the United States should have, given how insane our way of life had become. Minor quit blowing into his harmonica long enough to say that John D. Rockefeller and the Bush family had made a deal with the Devil going back all the way to the 1900s.
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The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
