Arthur Keith Quotes
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.
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There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
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I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.
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I can’t die, he most famously liked to say. It would ruin my image.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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Good friends always know when you need a cup of tea.
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The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
