- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some things I feel the need to pussyfoot around that I would like to... give vent to. But I realise the press isn't the place to do that.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many Taiwanese, almost all Taiwanese, we'd like to we say we are a country, and we have a sovereignty of our own.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to sing with my cousins. We're in a church choir.
- Nov 07, 2020
I work out, but not like I should.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020