George Arundale Quotes
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Custom is second nature.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
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When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between 'what is' and 'what should be'.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.
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I get called all these horrible names by Lindsey Graham, who I don't even know.
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I'm not a sex symbol.
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life-to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
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When I fly to European destinations, I always fly economy; I don't fly business class - there is no advantage apart from a few more inches of room.
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There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
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I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
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Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
