Beatrice Webb Quotes

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

Beatrice Webb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 2, 1858 - April 30, 1943

Topics

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Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.

John Cameron Mitchell

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The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

John Muir

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Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

Amber Valletta

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There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

Steve Carell

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Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

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Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.

Trip Adler

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Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

Tom Hollander

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No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

Rusty Schweickart

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Religion is an irrational construct.

Michel Onfray

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It is good to have competition because that helps you survive in the long run.

Mohit Chauhan

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People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

Michael Lehmann

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When I was 12, there was a kid a couple of grades older than me who was picking on my sisters. No matter how big they were, I would defend them.

Lucky Blue Smith

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