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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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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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.
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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe - turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you - if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.
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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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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.
