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- Nov 07, 2020
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This page collects quotes built around superlatives — including a direct critique of George W. Bush's domestic policy priorities, alongside genre-film commentary on luck and poor decision-making. For a look at priority and value elsewhere, see Important quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important opinions to me are those that belong to the guys in the changing room.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so little SF drawn from modern scientific thinking, in any discipline, that I'm much more cheered by the successes than the failures, most of which are forgivable.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
- Promotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
- Equanimity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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- Nov 07, 2020