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.
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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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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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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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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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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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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Most people don't remember the guy from 'The Real World.' They know the guy who is a professional, a father, and a friend that gives great advice.
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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.
