Warren MacKenzie Quotes
We benefited from living with Bernard Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.
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What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
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Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.
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Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.
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When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.
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Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
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It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.
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Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
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Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
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The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
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We benefited from living with Bernard Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.
