Benjamin Jowett Quotes
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really.
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I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).
