E. M. Forster Quotes
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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every individual is made in the image of God, insofar as he or she is a rational and free creature capable of knowing God and loving him.
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I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
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I don't want to fail by being conservative; I want to fail by doing something no one has ever done.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
