Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.
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Government is not show business.
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Coming off 'House of Cards,' playing someone so straight-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents.
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I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through belief in the Thrones, Through confession of the Oneness Towards the Creator.
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It is, according to almost every guidebook, the world's 'greatest monument to love.
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Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.
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Go to work on an egg.
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I try to only go out twice a week. More than that would leave me feeling pretty run down.
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To be confronted as you exit the polling place is really a matter of if you have the time, if you have the inclination to speak to a stranger, and if you want to divulge what is a very sacred, private matter - the way that you just voted.
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Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.
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The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.
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There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.
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You gotta play every game like your last.
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Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
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You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.
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It's semi-frustrating when your name actually becomes a synonym for douchebag.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness; and in like manner requires and expects, of all officers, and soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine service, to implore the blessings of heaven upon the means used for our safety and defence.
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The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
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Bollocks, I thought, or testiculi or possibly testiculos if we were using the accusative.
