Polly Toynbee Quotes

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Polly Toynbee

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ChildrenReligionWorldOverBetween

I just want to work.

Maye Musk

WorkWantJust

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir

NatureHeartMountainEnvironmental

Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey.

Stephen Kinzer

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I've worked with Lars von Trier on many films, and there's always a female character that's like an open wound - everything just pours out of this person.

Stellan Skarsgard

CharacterPersonOpenEverythingOut

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Townsend Harris

YouCircumstancesWillFirstOpen

Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.'

Robert Zubrin

TodayPoliticalNewGangMayBeen

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

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Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

Don Yaeger

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I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

Bobby Darin

ParentsLegalNowMoreStillThan

If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.

Ara Parseghian

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Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

Anne Robinson

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