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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
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"And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons."
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"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
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"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
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"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
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"The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad."
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"It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be."
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"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."
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"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
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"But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them."
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"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'."
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
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"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
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"I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club."
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"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
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"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
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"But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang."
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"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."
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"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
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"I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in."
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"If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job."
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"Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality."
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"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
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"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
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"I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me."
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"It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood."
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"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
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"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that."
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"I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today."
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"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will."
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"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."
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