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.
David Brin
Quotes to Explore
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Saint Ambrose
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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.
Jackie Kennedy
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
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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.
Tara Brach
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's the boring things that mean a lot to me. I enjoy taking my sisters to eat. Or sitting watching TV with my family.
David Archuleta
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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.
Barack Obama
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz
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When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.
Emerson Fittipaldi
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
Barack Obama
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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.
David Brin
