Charles Stross Quotes
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.
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I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?
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The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
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So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.
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I play. But this is what I think.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
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Extreme programming is an emotional experience.
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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
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I do not believe in planning.
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By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.
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Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.
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My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?
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The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?
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I hate people who say New Balance shoes are only for white people. That's not real.
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You got overdraft at the mythology bank.
