P. D. James Quotes
Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
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The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
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I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
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Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
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They brought me in and told me they were probably going to pick the option up. You always want to earn whatever you get. I take a lot pride in that. He didn't have to bring me in today. I appreciate that. When I was a free agent, a lot of teams called and I really didn't answer. There was only one place, and that still remains the same. I don't want to play for nobody else but the Yankees.
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Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
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Hell will freeze over before this CEO implements another employee benefit in this culture.
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The Iraqi elections were an important first step.
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Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
