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William Cowper

"Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same."

- William Cowper

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Walter Huston

“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.”

- Walter Huston

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John Gribbin

“Philosophers have long pondered the fact that history has no meaning – the past has no experience – except in the way it is recorded in the present.”

Source/Notes: In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality (1984) - ISBN: 9780553341034

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John Niven

“I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.”

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Bill Lawrence

“I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'”

- Bill Lawrence

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Robert Indiana

“I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old.”

- Robert Indiana

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Mimi Rogers

“I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik

“I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.”

- Devdutt Pattanaik

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Rebecca Ferguson

“I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.”

- Rebecca Ferguson

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Laura Dekker

“I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.”

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Hannah Arendt

“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.”

- Hannah Arendt

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Tom Seaver

“If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.”

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Frances Brooke

“Don't you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... If you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.”

- Frances Brooke

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Ralph Hall

“I've always been conservative. I was born that way.”

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Oliver Hazard Perry

“We have met the enemy and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.”

- Oliver Hazard Perry

Source/Notes: Dispatch to General William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie, (10 September 1813)

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Alexander Meiklejohn

“Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.”

- Alexander Meiklejohn

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Terry Fox

“I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.”

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Tom Hodgkinson

“What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.”

- Tom Hodgkinson

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