Ernest Gowers Quotes
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
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The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.
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Morgan, Lewis is a very large firm now, but it was not quite as big then. It was exciting for an associate in those days, because you got good and varied assignments and terrific training.
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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'receive this Knowledge and know God within yourself. That pure energy, God, is within your own heart'.
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All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways.
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.
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If you open up your eyes and imagine. Expand your horizon with rhyming and rapping. Quit rapping and rhyming bout cocaine supplying. And clapping is anyone out there or are yall all absent?
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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.