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"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the house of lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the british could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer
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"If God ever chooses a house to live on earth, it will be the house of Science, not the house of Religion!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy." »John Owen
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"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." »John Muir
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"Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success." »John McDonald
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"With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the house of God is the house of Chaos!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If this universe is the house of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open; let everything enters the house!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" »Mark Twain
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ``Get the hell off my property.'" »Joan Rivers
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"He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand." »Constance Naden
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"We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White house for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White house tells us." »Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
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"If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." »Mark
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"Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." »Oliver Goldsmith
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"The maxim of the british people is 'Business as Usual.'" »Winston Churchill
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"To disagree with three-fourths of the british public is one of the first requisites of sanity." »Oscar Wilde
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"They say the sun never sets over the british Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded." »Steven Wright
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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen
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"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the british Museum." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Americans and british have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'" »Alexis Sayle
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"Among the many misdeeds of the british rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Among the many misdeeds of the british rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the british Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." »Winston Churchill
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"N.B. This quote refers to the british disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the british public." »George Bernard Shaw
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