Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

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• My interests are not really with television, per se.

  

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• Material interests are not the only guiding light.

  

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• Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.

  

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• Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

  

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• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

  

  Gavyn Davies
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• I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.

  

  Stevie Wonder
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• As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
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• The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

  

  Alfred Jarry
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• There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

  

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• Bibi wants to destroy everything for his own personal interests.

  

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• The government has a sacred duty to address the nation and make it listen to the voice of its greatest rights and interests.

  

  Benito Juarez
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• When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

  

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• Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.

  

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• Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

  

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• The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

  

  Aristotle
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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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• I don't listen to a lot of music at all. I think that's very bizarre too, because it was such a comfort zone for me. But I don't know if I had my fill, but I don't listen to a lot of music, because I'm creating it.

  

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• Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

  

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• Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.

  

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• It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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