Charles Stross Quotes
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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As an older child, I was a huge 'Anne Of Green Gables' fan.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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In brief, part of the need for funding comes from the need to create balance to a third of a century of funding an 'attitude' toward men. And part comes from the need to study how both sexes can make a transition from those rigid roles to more flexible roads with a clear enough road map to not go over too many cliffs along the way...
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He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good ... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down in the Bald Knob country that time, and Con was quick. He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
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Any free meal is a good meal, you know?
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Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.
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I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.
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I might not understand everything a Democrat or liberal thinks but hey let's be honest, I don't understand some of the things the Republicans think, but that doesn't make me some dumb hick that doesn't have the right to live here.
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For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
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I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
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Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It will feature heroes and pioneers, naysayers and obstacles, and moments of victory and doubt. If we persevere, however, we will put our economy back on a path of growth and sustainability.
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At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.
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My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
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How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.
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And that’s when it turned intae the full-dress faeco-ventilatory intersection scene.
