Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.
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And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.
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I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.
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Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
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Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.