William Hurrell Mallock Quotes
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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Do I support a driver's license for everybody? The answer is yes.
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It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.
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I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.
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Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.
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If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
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My advice on firing is simple: Treat that person the same way you'd want to be treated if you were in that situation. They're still a good person, just not the right fit. So how do you help them move on in a productive way that allows them to maintain their dignity?
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Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
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If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.
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Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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Makeup is cool. I mean, you can turn up and feel really good and treat yourself, but it shouldn't be something you hang on to to validate your beauty or something you have to do to make you feel beautiful.
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This is what my calling is now. I'm here to try to help our party.
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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
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We will have rings and things and fine array
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.
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Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
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Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
