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.
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If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
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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.
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We have a responsibility to be aware of others.
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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.
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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.
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He is called the horse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
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Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.
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I look back at the 1990s with its light-wash jeans, and I'm like, 'What...?'
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The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
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I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
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All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
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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.
