Monica Ali Quotes
I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
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As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.
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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.
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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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Common sense is not too common.
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
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When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nineteenth century idea that teaching is a form of mothering.
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The world was different before the war. We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
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The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
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. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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When I was at school I got lines for dropping a big squelchy, loud fart. My teacher, who was a priest, made me write 'I must not fart in class' 100 times. I left that school shortly afterwards.
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It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.
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I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.
