Bernard Crick Quotes
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Quotes to Explore
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
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I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
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Obscure, like muddy waters.
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If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
