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.Robert Falcon Scott
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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 -
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 -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden -
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith -
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 -
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 -
Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco -
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
Lady Gregory -
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Takeshi Kitano -
To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
Lars Larsen
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It's like there's something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if nobody else wants to do it, Wonder Woman would step up and take care of business. But she doesn't want to do it, and she would never take any delight in it. That's Wonder Woman to me.
Patty Jenkins -
I have a lot of fantasy.
Jil Sander -
I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.
Joel Salatin -
I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
Elizabeth Wurtzel -
At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.
Barack Obama -
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games; they encourage it in some schools.
Robert Falcon Scott