Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
You don’t get to be a senior investigating officer unless you have a degree in scepticism, an MA in distrust and your CV lists suspicious bastard under your hobbies.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt.
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And charge it please.
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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.
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The United States must produce more students interested in math and science in order for our Nation to excel in an increasingly global economy.
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.
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You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
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If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.
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Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill.
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The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes no active part - not its effects in the man of action. In the man of action, moral relativism and scepticism as to the absolute and universal value of his priunciples are no obstacle to a fanatical belief in their immediate value as his own clan at the actual moment; they do not weaken in the least his will to impose his principles. How should he glimpse a soul of truth in the principles of others, entitling them to respect, when he does not believe in noble origins of this kind even for his own principles?
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We'll continue to talk about that all week.
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Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
