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John B. S. Haldane Quotes

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

John B. S. Haldane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: November 5, 1892 - December 1, 1964

Topics

Life Brother My Life Down Cousins

It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.

Love Free Expectations Kind Come

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

Fun People Injustice Want Write Up

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Fiction Experimentation Ceases

It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.

Aneurin Barnard

Good Great Yourself Theatre Think

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean Henri Fabre

History Past Memory People Think

I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.

Good Team Never Always Out CEO

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

Character Classic Air Fiction Would

I'm like any Brazilian: I like to go out and enjoy myself.

Myself Enjoy Go Out Like Brazilian

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Religion World Sick Laugh Giving

There's got to be the same rules for everyone.

Rules Same Everyone Got

When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.

Work Day Someone Long You Petty

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Dorothy Kilgallen

Confidence Said Things Reporter Kept

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