Alison Jolly Quotes
Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
Alison Jolly
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
Harbhajan Singh
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
Randy Pausch
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I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
Hannah Murray
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Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
Alan Dershowitz
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Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.
Andrew Marvell
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I had sworn to administer justice 'faithfully and impartially.' To do otherwise would be to violate my oath. That meant I had no business of imposing my personal views on the country. Nor did I have the slightest intention of doing so.
Clarence Thomas
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
Henry David Thoreau
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In'ards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.
Ambrose Bierce
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Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
Brian Wilson
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
Angus King
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'When you are in the position privileged access, like a system administrator, you are exposed to a lot more information on a broader scale then the average employee...' Praxis films, 2013
Edward Snowden
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I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.
Leon Russell
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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
B. F. Skinner
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American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?
Christopher Buckley
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Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
Alison Jolly
