Edmund Crispin Quotes
The masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I've never tried to manipulate my image.
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I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.
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I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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To me, my recipes are priceless.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
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I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
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One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly
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Gays are national conservatives.
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The masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.
