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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Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.
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Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
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At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.
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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
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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.
