A. E. Housman Quotes
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
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There's no down time any more.
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My career is the sum of the decisions I have made. Everyone can work hard, but I work on my own terms. I stand my ground, and once I have committed to anything, I give my 150 per cent. I don't take my work for granted, ever. I know that, forget me, no matter where anyone is, everyone is dispensable. Why would I think I am indispensable then?
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
