Auberon Waugh Quotes

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

Auberon Waugh

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• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

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• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
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• We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

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• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

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• Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

  

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• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
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• We are wiser than we know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

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• I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

  

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• A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.

  

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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

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• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

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• Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • True
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• The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

  

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• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

  

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• He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right.

  

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• It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • Simple
  • Wisdom
  • Carcase