William E. Gladstone Quotes
[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
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If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for - that's how racism works.
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Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.
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We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.
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There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.
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[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.
