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Quote by Iris Murdoch
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible,

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – Iris Murdoch

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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

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Happiness
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And thats the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. – John Grisham

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When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I dont try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. – Ray Bradbury

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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. – Barbara Boxer

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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…and torture myself with happy thoughts… – Terri Guillemets

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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. – Danny Boyle

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