Wilbur Smith Quotes

My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

Wilbur Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: January 9, 1933

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I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Andrew Eldritch

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I really, really want the WWE to be able to perform on a regular basis in China. I think we should be able go to India on a regular basis.

John Cena

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I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

Michael J. Fox

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Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

Stanley Hauerwas

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There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

Robert C. Solomon

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Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Mason Cooley

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You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Miriam Toews

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Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

Bow Wow

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Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'

Phil Everly

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Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Pauline Neville-Jones

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The different foods and cultures and geography and art - I could spend my lifetime traveling around India and still not fully know it.

Shenaz Treasury

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