E. M. Forster Quotes
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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You know how it's almost impossible for kids to not say what they think? That's me. I have to make the conscious effort to be situationally appropriate.
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It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.
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We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
