Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
Ben Aaronovitch
Quotes to Explore
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
Karl Rove
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
Jack Adams
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
Malorie Blackman
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Wassily Kandinsky
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
Harold Rosenberg
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When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
Hannibal Buress
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We eat pretty healthy foods, and I've taught my kids since they were little about knocking out trans fats.
Victoria Osteen
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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
Oprah Winfrey
