Anthony Malcolm Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) Quotes
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.
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We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
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People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
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We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's world begins with the acknowledgment that we are not God, and that our most bitter rivals are made in God's image.
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
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The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.
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Why are we so hard on one another? I wonder. Hadn’t the world already given us challenges enough?
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There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.
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Obviously that is disappointing and we'll be raising that ... with Chinese government officials, he's being held in residential surveillance, which we would normally describe as home detention ... my understanding is it's in Beijing.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.
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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.
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There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
