Vera Brittain Quotes
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
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I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
