Benjamin Jowett Quotes
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).
Quotes to Explore
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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'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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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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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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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
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We see then, commodities are in love with money, but 'the course of true love never did run smooth'.
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You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
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Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).
