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Goldwin Smith Quotes

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910

Topics

Mind Evolution Bear Everything May

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Government Control Free Essence

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Good Mind Measure Person True Him

Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.

Amitabh Bachchan

Family Relationship Fight I Am Me

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

Stephen Hawking

Father Research Medicine Physics

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Michael Morpurgo

Peace Fight War People Understand

When I was growing up, I think I was expected to be seen and not heard. You're this little, nerdy kid; no one wants to hear about how sad you are. Nobody wants to hear that you feel lonely.

You Talk Vulnerability See TV Often

I don't care how late it is, I will not go to sleep without washing my face.

Christine Lakin

Sleep Face Care Late Go Will

If I could grill for breakfast, I would.

Breakfast If I Could Would Grill

I thought, as a kid, that I was The Doctor's biggest fan, so my mum and dad bought me a battery-operated Dalek. I must have worn it out, I played with it so much.

Me Doctor Thought Kid Out Must

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

Confidence Business People Insecurity

I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

Life Expectations Think My Life High

My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones', where you're Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue.

Austin Grossman

Beginning City Game Friends You Go

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