Chris Hadfield Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
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What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.
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I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.
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I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.
