William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality.
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I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
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Suicide attacks are not limited to the Palestinians. There can be Jewish suicide attackers. Their first target is the prime minister. We have no experience dealing with such extremists.
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Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.
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When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
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... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.
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I'm a fan of records you get and you listen to them from beginning to finish - records where everything is there for a purpose. There was never any filler on those records - it was all well planned out.
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The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.
