Mark Steyn Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
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I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
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I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
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I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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As we're unleashing the benefits of communications technologies, we also want to minimize the downsides.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.
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I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.
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Give sacrificially. We don't like risky faith. We like to have our safety net below us. But we miss the adventure of seeing God provide when we've really stretched ourselves in giving.
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
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Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.
