David Brin Quotes
But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
Quotes to Explore
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
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The idea of having to match a pair of socks to your tie or to your pants just doesn't make any sense to me... With boots, you don't have to worry about it. Nobody sees your socks.
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I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.
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As sure as a gun.
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Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.
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But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
