A. E. Housman Quotes
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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The thought of having a kid stricken with cancer just floored me. My children are everything to me.
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
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Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
