Lewis Carroll Quotes
I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.
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We all have our place in this diverse Spain.
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Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.
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All of my shows involve men in tights. It's a bit bizarre, really.
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
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Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
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The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
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May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is putting an end to the quarrels and strife of centuries and of building up of a finer community of all peoples is: The recognition of a higher common duty arising out of common rights?
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
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I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it.
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Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.
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I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.
