Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
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I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
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No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
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You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the NRA.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
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We're seeing conservatives and evangelicals and libertarian and Reagan Democrats all coming together as one, and that terrifies Washington, D.C.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
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I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
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To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.
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Action that comes from the feeling of inspiration is action that will produce good results, for you are allowing the Laws of Attraction of the Universe to carry you.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
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I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.
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Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.
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And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.
