Alannah Myles Quotes
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.
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Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.
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By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
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We lose all that time which we might employ better.
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A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
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One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.
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If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.
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I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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Beauty lives with kindness.
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Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.
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The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.
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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
