Norman Tebbit Quotes
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
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How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!
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I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
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My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.
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Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
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It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.
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... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.
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A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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I've never bashed a union in my life.
