A. P. Herbert Quotes
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I always had a love for kids' clothes, but having your own kids is a better education for what is practical. I used to buy such crazy things for the store that were so much fun but not the most practical.
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People who are terrified need to get a sense of where their bodies are in space and of their boundaries. Firm and reassuring touch lets them know where those boundaries are: what’s outside them, where their bodies end. They discover that they don’t constantly have to wonder who and where they are. They discover that their body is solid and that they don’t have to be constantly on guard. Touch lets them know that they are safe.
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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
