Edward Whymper Quotes
Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.
