Annie Besant Quotes

The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders.

Annie Besant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 1, 1847 - September 20, 1933

Topics

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I wasn't raised in a household where vanity was celebrated. That just wasn't on the top of our list.

Jennifer Garner

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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

Anna Lindh

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I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

Ann Romney

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Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.

Michael Douglas

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One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.

Stephen Rodrick

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I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.

Stella Young

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I feel a great kinship with my origins, even though I only learned a few words of Arabic.

Stephan El Shaarawy

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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

Sholom Aleichem

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Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

Marvin Ammori

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When I first started, there really was no beauty guru community. I didn't have the right production resources. I had to learn how to edit. I didn't even have beauty products. I had to go out and buy them myself because beauty brands didn't even know what a beauty guru was.

Michelle Phan

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Restaurants serve supersize portions to make you feel you're getting your money's worth.

Michael Pollan

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No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

Jason Calacanis

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