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Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as a result are… — Len McCluskey
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control… — S. T. Joshi
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies… — Anthony Minghella
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy… — Thomas Jefferson
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it… — Orson Scott Card
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed… — Sigmund Freud
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open.… — Julius Nyerere
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask… — Tom Regan
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts — Brooks Robinson
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity.… — Orison Swett Marden
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a… — Roger Bannister
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in… — Mahathir Mohamad
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness… — Julia Cameron
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts… — Thomas A. Edison
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo… — Arthur Koestler
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes,… — Robert Burton
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato

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