William Bligh Quotes
Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.
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Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
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'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
