Cecil Rhodes Quotes
In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
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Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
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To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.
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I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person.I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality.
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Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
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Being up one point is irrelevant. It's like a mile race and you're 50 yards ahead. There's such a long way to go.
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Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!
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...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.
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They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept.
