Charles Stross Quotes
Ninety-five percent of all human-readable traffic over the net is spam, a figure virtually unchanged since the late noughties.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.
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You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.
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I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.
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We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.
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I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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He's just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.
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My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
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I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.
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I absolutely hate mowing the lawn. When I hear the mowers starting, I want to kill myself: it's the sound of death approaching. Hoovering's OK, but I never in my life wanted to have a lawn and certainly never wanted to mow one.
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Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
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Ninety-five percent of all human-readable traffic over the net is spam, a figure virtually unchanged since the late noughties.
