Emily Eden Quotes
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Is now the time to legalize prostitution?
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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The Ramans do everything in threes.
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You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.
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I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
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The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.
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It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.
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I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.
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The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
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My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?
