Vera Brittain Quotes
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
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I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?
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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
