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Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I hope we've learnt something from the most barbaric century in history: the 20th. I would like to see us overcome our tribal divisions and begin to think and act as if we were one family. That would be real globalisation.
Beginning with Oedipus, I've always been interested in plagues. I have studied a lot about medieval plagues.
Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.
When it comes down to it I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyway.
That's my ambition. But I've been doing so much working out and all that dancing.
He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him, goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
Anyway, the whole purpose of what I just said was to put you on the defensive.
It seems to be in the power of a reasonable clergyman to make the most ignorant man comprehend his duty.
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.