Thomas Dewar Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.
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I want to shape the TV screen canvas
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Long hours of labour seem to be the secret of the rational and healthful processes, which are to raise the condition of the labourer by an improvement of his mental and moral powers and to make a rational consumer out of him.
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And so to bed.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
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To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.
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There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
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Corpse Pose sounds like no big deal, right? Then what’s so difficult about this spiritualized snooze? Forget about getting your feet behind your head. Just try lying still for ten minutes. With nothing left to do, you’re finally forced to come face to face with yourself.
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And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.
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Made no fuss and helped around the house without making a song and dance about it. She’ll make Dr Fforde a good wife, reflected Aunt Leticia.
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No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.
