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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
