Richard Adams Quotes
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A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
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Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions.
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I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
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You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.
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It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
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We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
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To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.
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I had been stopped a couple of times -- once in a Lexus and in a Blazer. Both of the cars had factory sound systems. I understand the citizen's position on noise, but the city was towing cars that didn't have loud sound systems. When it happened to me, I knew there was something wrong.
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You're always homesick.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.
