Douglas Hurd Quotes

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Douglas Hurd

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People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.

Jimmy Wales

CommunityPeopleCareTake CareBad

I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.

John Burnside

GreatBorderRichPlantRemember

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Joel Osteen

GodFightSayWillTryBattles

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

Amanda Donohoe

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While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look.

Stephane Rolland

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Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.

Steve Scalise

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There's no way to recover after tarnishing an undefeated record.

Ronda Rousey

WayUndefeatedRecordRecoverAfter

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

Rudy Rucker

MyselfEverythingConvinceWorking

There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.

Doug Baldwin

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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Christopher Morley

BeautyHeartManSecretAnswers

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

Anne Sweeney

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