Mary Astell Quotes

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

Mary Astell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 12, 1666 - May 11, 1731

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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

Jessica Savitch

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I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together.

Melvyn Bragg

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I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very close and almost cast in Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'Capote.'

Michael Eklund

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I sign a film based on the story, the role I play, and the maker.

Amitabh Bachchan

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Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.

Tom Verica

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See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

Roy Yamaguchi

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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

Doug Henning

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The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.

Donald Luskin

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You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Brian McBride

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I think you can learn from history.

Chuck Norris

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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

WizKid

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Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.

Peter Dinklage

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