William Beveridge Quotes
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.
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I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.
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Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own accord from a long enough daily work at a given matter.
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Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.
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You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
