Arthur Helps Quotes
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
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People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.
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Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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In India, the measure of a singer's freedom is in his own creative personality. He can sing the composer's song as his own, if he has the power creatively to assert himself in his interpretation of the general law of the melody which he is given to interpret.
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed
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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.
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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
