Dave Eggers Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
I never lie to my fans.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.
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Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?
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We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.
