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Winnie Ewing
"Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on."
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Source : Winnie Ewing (2004). “Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing”, Birlinn Publishers
Winnie Ewing
#Scotland Quotes
#World Quotes
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“I was born, so that the whole world could be a spectatorOf my triumph or my doom...”
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“Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.”
Source : Grey Owl (1938). “The Green Leaf: A Tribute to Grey Owl”
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“There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.”
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“And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.”
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“Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen.”
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“I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.”
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“If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.”
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“When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.”
