Laetitia Pilkington Quotes
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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I think it was Osama bin Laden’s idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
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I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
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With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.
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You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
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The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.
