Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
Dan O'Brien
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
Quentin Blake
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
Camille Paglia
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
Vaclav Klaus
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
Gary Johnson
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
Kat Graham
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
Dan Rosensweig
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
J. D. Salinger
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
Garry Shandling
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
Andrea Dworkin
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
John le Carre
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We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
