Thomas Dewar Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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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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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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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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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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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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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
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Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.
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When there were cases of Ebola in the States, I respected that people wanted to address concerns and take some sort of action, but the focus turned completely to the U.S. At one point, we started to wonder, Where is the Ebola epidemic happening? The States - or West Africa?
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Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
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If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
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I want to have kids. But I want to have kids without a wife. Then again, I also want my kids to have a mother.
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No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.
