Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
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What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.
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The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.
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Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
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I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.
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The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again.'
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.
