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A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.


Douglas Brunt

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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely wh...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for...
DOUGLAS JERROLD A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
DOUGLAS JERROLD After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ...
TOM DOUGLAS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe...
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