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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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner, and enable us to infer of one class of phenomena what we know of another. It has thus happened on several occasions that the discovery of an unsuspected analogy between two branches of knowledge has been the starting point for a rapid course of discovery.
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Before Turner there was no fog in London.
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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.
