Bruce Sterling Quotes
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
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There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
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The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
