Doug Ose Quotes
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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I am a just man.
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I love basketball.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
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Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.
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Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.
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I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.
