Charles Stross Quotes
It was a lousy plan, the only thing to commend it being the fact that all the alternatives were worse.
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
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In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
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I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.
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I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
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We must not allow the possibility of compromising our national security due to lack of review or oversight by the federal government.
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I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a certain kind of emotional state.
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Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.
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It was a lousy plan, the only thing to commend it being the fact that all the alternatives were worse.
