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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I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.
Ian Jackson
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I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help of organisations like Alzheimer's Society to help us understand the disease and guide us in the care of my grandmother. It's been a privilege to meet so many people with dementia.
Carey Mulligan
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
Adam Smith
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Technology is a ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, and the accompanying geeky lexicon has infiltrated every facet of our modern day society.
Kimberly Bryant
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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
Jeremy Irons
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
