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 fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
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We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
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If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.
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We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.
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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.
