Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThe upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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True patriotism doesn’t exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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