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've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.
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I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.
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Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.
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Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time
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It was a lousy plan, the only thing to commend it being the fact that all the alternatives were worse.
