Joan D. Vinge Quotes
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
Joan D. Vinge
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
Vincent Bugliosi
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
Utada Hikaru
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
Zosia Mamet
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
O. J. Simpson
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
Naomi Klein
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
Tabatha Coffey
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi
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There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
Ken Starr
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Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.
Sadao Araki
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...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'
Carl Jung
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Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
Bill Budge
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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
Joan D. Vinge