E. M. Forster Quotes
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
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I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
