Nigel Calder Quotes
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.
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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
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Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
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I regard religion as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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Mon triste coeur bave à la poupe.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
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There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
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O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine & dying We live, we die and death not ends it
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As if death were a resource that had to be earned, that could ever be used up or wasted.
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The graphics are the really freaky thing. I have two stepsons who are really good at the games, and they saw the likenesses. They had a gleam in their eyes, and I could see that the reason they liked it was because they could play to a point and then just stop, and I would get wasted. I think there's a certain amount of joy in, like, 'Let's watch him get shot again! Do it again!' You can make him really get riddled.
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The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
