William Golding Quotes
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What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it because, on balance, it is conducive to the public good.
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I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
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To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
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The status quo sucks.
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I like anything that's edible.
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Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.
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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
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The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
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I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.
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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
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If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal.
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
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For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse.
