Francis Herbert Hedge Quotes

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Francis Herbert Hedge

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When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

Jimmy Reid

PowerGovernmentVotingDoubtStreet

A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier

MindBraveAlways

Cops and criminals aren't that different. They just play by different sets of rules. And the lines get blurred. There's no such thing as 'right' and 'wrong.' There's always a grey area. There are always hypocrisies.

Mike Colter

RulesWrongPlayGreyRightAlways

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

Lucian Freud

PictureWorthPersonTwicePainter

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Louis C. K.

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As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

Judy Biggert

ChangeTechnologyChildrenParents

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

Jonny Wilkinson

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I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don't come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

David Whyte

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All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.

Alfred North Whitehead

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Paul Wellstone

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