If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

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You carry Childhood Never Become older

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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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Healthy attitude Contagious Wait A carrier

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Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

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Success Metaphysical experience Bigger scale

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It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

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Light matter Jeopardy Single life Underpin

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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

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Theater Story telling Feel entitled Playwright

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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbor, your village and beyond.

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Give Life Your children Last biscuit

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All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

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Your life Truth Permanent blur Being ambushed

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

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Better Know Useless things Nothing

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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

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Human right Simply endorse Life Moral value

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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

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I'm hopeless Looking Into myself See

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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

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Maturity High price Pay Growing up

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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

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The voting Democracy The counting

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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

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Give advice The bucket Take it The grain

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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers

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Whole life Waiting for The questions Prepared answers

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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

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So thrilled Reported Access To people

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Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

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Time Short The entertainers Newspaper

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What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

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The society To protect Complete surveillance Commonwealth

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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

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From principles Probability Truth Obtained

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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

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Life Gamble Terrible odds

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

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You associate Older people Do enjoy Their lives

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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

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The bad End unhappily Good unluckily Tragedy means

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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

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Enough things Untrue About you Will know

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It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

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Better Quotable Be honest

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The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

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The truth Compound Half truths Never reach

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"24 Tom Stoppard Quotes & Sayings

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Tom Stoppard

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Tom Stoppard

Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

Tom Stoppard

It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

Tom Stoppard

Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Tom Stoppard

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbor, your village and beyond.

Tom Stoppard

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Tom Stoppard

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Tom Stoppard

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

Tom Stoppard

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

Tom Stoppard

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Tom Stoppard

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Tom Stoppard

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Tom Stoppard

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Tom Stoppard

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Tom Stoppard

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Tom Stoppard

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Tom Stoppard

If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Tom Stoppard

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Tom Stoppard

The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

Tom Stoppard

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