Elspeth Huxley Quotes
You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.
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I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.
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Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
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For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
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I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
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People here had redwood trees in their backyards. You were never far from the infinite.
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Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
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The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
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I'm convinced that it is the psychopathic personality that searches out a uniform. There's little doubt of what's going on in that man's head who will voluntarily don any uniform.
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The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
