"I am more or less happy when being……" — Arthur Balfour
"I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained."
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Arthur Balfour
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28 Quotes by Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour has 28 quotes on this site.
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Enthusiasm moves the world.
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of…
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
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Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its…
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Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have…
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More Abused Quotes
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it…
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
— H.G. Wells
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused…
— Dianne Feinstein
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a…
— James A. Baldwin
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This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer…
— Euripides
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When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights,…
— William J. Clinton
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine…
— Martin Luther
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has…
— Mark Twain
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
— Tim Field
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When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I…
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