Thomas Ken Quotes
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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I wish I had a family. In the future I´ll try to figure out how to dedicate more time to my personal life, and yes, maybe think about a family, kids, comes an age when the body asks for it.5
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Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.
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The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
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In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
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The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements
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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.
