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Small: I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege
Sean Connery
"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: I havent found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I loo
Sean Connery
"I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: I have always hated that damn James Bond. Id like to kill him
Sean Connery
"I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: Theres something fundamentally wrong with a system where theres been 17 years of a Tory Government and the peo
Sean Connery
"There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: Theres one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!
Sean Connery
"There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: Its a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now
Sean Connery
"It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: I dont understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric d
Sean Connery
"I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man
Sean Connery
"There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have
Sean Connery
"I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points"
Sean Connery, Actor
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Small: Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly
"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health
"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health"
James Thomson, Musician
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Small: To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset
"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Ingratitude is treason to mankind
"Ingratitude is treason to mankind"
James Thomson, Musician
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Small: I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitari
"I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked"
Gerard Butler, Actor
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Small: We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well
"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because H
"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes
"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantit
"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down
"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: I knew Id just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a m
"I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special"
Gerard Butler, Actor
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Small: Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. Im really going to love
"Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that"
Gerard Butler, Actor
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Small: I had to prove myself to a lot of different people
"I had to prove myself to a lot of different people"
Gerard Butler, Actor
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Small: I always find stuff in my characters to relate to
"I always find stuff in my characters to relate to"
Gerard Butler, Actor
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Small: It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern th
"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend,
"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: You cant live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud
"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty
"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing
"There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I apprecia
"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission
"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom
"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: It matters little where a man may be at this moment the point is whether he is growing
"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the h
"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: The world rolls round forever like a mill it grinds out death and life and good and ill it has no purpose, hea
"The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will"
James Thomson, Musician
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Small: I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical refle
"I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?"
James Thomson, Musician
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Small: To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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Small: I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans
"I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans"
George MacDonald, Novelist
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