Augustine Birrell Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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The beauties of the game may be lost on some of us sometimes, but many children will read about football when they will read nothing else, not for realism or glamour but for romance.
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I don't play in any tournaments to come second best.
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We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.
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For American families, Universal pre-K is an essential piece of the puzzle that not only allows their kids to get a good start, but it also allows mothers to remain on the job earning a paycheck and helping our economy grow.
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A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
