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Quotes by Scottish Authors
"It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor."
"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."
Film,
"When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to the point. It was nice to see him after a long time, and we met in a hotel room."
"The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them."
"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."
"There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."
"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
God,
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one."
"Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."
"It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity."
"Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise."
"As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World."
"In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual."
"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."
"Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them."
"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."
"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."
"I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority."
"The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's."
"The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge."
"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."
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