Patrick Geddes Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today - our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
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The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
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To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
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After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
