David Brin Quotes
It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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No two wars are identical.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
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Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.
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For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.
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It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
