Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
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Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.
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'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
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If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
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I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.
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Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics.
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For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.
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They've been excellent appointments. These people are in the tradition of strong, well-qualified, non-ideological economists.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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NOTHING which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.
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Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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I don't have time to date.
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Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
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When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible.
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Punishment and revenge are two different things.
