Alec-Tweedie Quotes

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

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• I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

  

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• Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

  

  Elie Wiesel
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• Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

  

  Alan Greenspan
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• We have a responsibility to be aware of others.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.

  

  Sahndra Fon Dufe
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• I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.

  

  Isaac Newton
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• He is called the horse.

  

  Anna Sewell
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• The object is to make beautiful music for people to have forever. Music that stays - not just becomes a ringtone. Longevity.

  

  Aaron Dontez Yates
  • Music
  • Forever
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• I've been doing theater for a long time, so that's something I understand. I'm such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I'm still learning. It's exciting.

  

  William Fitzgerald Harper
  • Learning
  • Film
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• The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.

  

  David George Hogarth
  • Limitations
  • Archaeology
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• Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Home
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• Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.

  

  Bill Loguidice
  • Events
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  • Human Lifetime

• Perhaps the most useful lesson which has come out of the work on penicillin has been the demonstration that success in this field depends on the development and coordinated use of technical methods.

  

  Howard Florey
  • Development
  • Methods
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• The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Work
  • Culture

• This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Please
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• How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

  

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Men
  • Think
  • Religion

• Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

  

  Alec-Tweedie
  • Civilisation
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  • Peas