T. E. Lawrence Quotes
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
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Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a "New World" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.
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I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
