Ernest Thesiger Quotes
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
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You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
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It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.
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We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
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The meetings yesterday proved that we really do have a partnership, which is growing both wider and deeper, ... We do also have some differences. But there is a lot more that unites us than divides us.
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The EU is willing to develop all-around strategic partnership with China, ... With our goals converging ever more closely, it makes sense to work together ever more closely.
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Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership with everyone.
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Now we characterise Russian-Chinese relations as a strategic partnership, even a special strategic partnership. We have never had such a level of trust with China before. China is our major trade and economic partner among foreign states. We implement joint multi-billion projects. We cooperate not only within the UN Security Council, which is logical, as both China and Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, but also within such regional organisations as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, BRICS, etc.
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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You’ve got to remember what your priorities are. When you’re playing, what you do on the field is the most important thing.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.
