E. M. Forster Quotes
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
