William Robertson Smith Quotes
The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.
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The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
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We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.
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A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
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I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
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The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.
