Jerry Pournelle Quotes
Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.
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A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.
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If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
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I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face.
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We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
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Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
