Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes
The once-marginal myth that the South Korean republic came into existence in Shanghai in 1919 as a nationalist state has become orthodox with remarkable speed.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
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People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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The odd time something happens and you go into some kind of enchantment (on stage). But you have to work very hard to get that. Most of the time you're just playing and singing the songs, and there's no guarantee that you are going to get anywhere....
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The spirit may triumph where politics (the League and the United Nations), socio-political faiths such as Marxism, Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism - all have failed. I see our only hope in faith, charity, and in humbling ourselves before man and God.
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Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality.
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It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. (Hays translation)
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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in infering that he is an inexact man.
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Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
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Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.
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I always say that, for me, writing a book is like a wacky Greyhound bus trip - I know where I'm starting and where I'll end up, but I have no idea what will happen along the way.
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I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?
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Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.
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In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.
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The once-marginal myth that the South Korean republic came into existence in Shanghai in 1919 as a nationalist state has become orthodox with remarkable speed.
