J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.

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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,Through all the wide Border his steed was the best.
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
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David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.
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Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.
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All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
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That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.