Edward Fitzgerald Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
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Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.
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If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.
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I consider all drama to be the opportunity to see the world from another person's point of view. That seems to be the point of drama, really. And thereby to encourage understanding and even love.
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…
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In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
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Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.
