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Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.


Dean Acheson
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Jack Vance
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.


Jack Horner
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The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.


John Prescott
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.


Zaha Hadid
In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.
Aidan Turner
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What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.
John C. Calhoun
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
Anne Lamott
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Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.


Lionel Jospin
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
Gail Sheehy
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I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
Scott Thompson
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You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.


Robin Gibb
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.


Man Ray
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The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.
Timothy Geithner
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I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.
Shia LaBeouf
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I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
Eric Kandel
It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey
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