Bruce Sterling Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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It was a little skirmish across a century.
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Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.
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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.
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When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.
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Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.
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No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.
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Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
