Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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My life is my message.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.
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An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
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My observations on clouds and skies are on scraps and bits of paper, and I have never yet put them together so as to form a lecture, which I shall do.. ..next summer. (1836)
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I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
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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.
