William Osler Quotes
Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I get homesick.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
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Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
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Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.
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I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
