Alan Parry Quotes
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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
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We aren't consistent in our treatment of animals.
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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The present educational establishment, to cite just one group, has been obscuring the past so that our children have no way of comparing the facts of history with the distorted version promoted by biased secular historians.
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We very often confuse personality with leadership.
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The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.
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I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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The sky is the sky wherever you go.
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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.
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“You know what they say about sympathy...it's in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.”
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It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.
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I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.
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Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run
