Mainly Quotes
555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from…
— John Bright
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For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to…
— Michael Rostovtzeff
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very…
— Barbara Castle
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Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few…
— Robert C. Solomon
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This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot…
— Ellen Muth
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Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
— Peter R. Grant
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Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
— Alexander Dubcek
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I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the…
— Klaus Fuchs
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I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as…
— Bobby Short
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No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.
— Marcus Allen
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I keep working mainly because my wife and I spend most of our time touring the country doing our own plays.
— Joseph Bologna
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We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of…
— Joseph Stefano
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The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
— John Bright
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Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.
— Mike May
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Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get…
— Michael Haneke
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The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In…
— Brian Cox
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My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the…
— Michel Martelly
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My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?
— Ne-Yo
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
— Patrick Wilson
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If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and…
— Mary Gordon
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My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual…
— Marilynne Robinson
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In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a…
— Andrew Lansley
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We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains…
— Joel Fuhrman
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I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at…
— Matt Mickiewicz
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