"I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men."

-- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

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“To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.”
“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers
“High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.”
“At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.”
“Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”

Source : Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82
“In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.”
“For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.”

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