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Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.


Julian Fellowes

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JULIAN BAGGINI When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were ...
JULIAN ASSANGE The overwhelming success of San Antonio B-Cycle has proven that San Antonio is a model city for bike...
JULIAN CASTRO For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
JULIAN BARNES Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we...
JULIAN BOND My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would h...
JULIAN CASTRO Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all ju...
JULIAN CASTRO Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call fl...
JULIAN BAGGINI Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you f...
JULIAN BAGGINI The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t...
JULIAN BAGGINI It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one...
JULIAN BAGGINI You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue th...
JULIAN BAGGINI My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
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