William Robertson Smith Quotes
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did.
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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.
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Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.
