Thomas More Quotes
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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I put up some great numbers.
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I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.
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I really like cable T.V.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.
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None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
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My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.
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I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in high school, I joined chamber choir. I wanted to do musical theater, too, but they had rehearsals at the same time. That was a bit of 'Sophie's Choice.'
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I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
