Robert Falcon Scott Quotes
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
Pat Buchanan
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
Mae Jemison
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
Hal Borland
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
Vicki Lawrence
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Page McConnell
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
I. King Jordan
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
Mahmoud Abbas
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Cao Cao
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
Vijay Singh
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
Lady Gregory
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Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
Margo Jefferson
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I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.
Yao Ming
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When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!
Paul Prudhomme
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History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
James Howard Kunstler
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The papers should promote minority views as well as mainstream argument and should encourage dissent.
Alan Rusbridger
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Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
Robert Falcon Scott