John Cheever Quotes
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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Faith and service to others were pillars in Rev. DeBose's life. I knew him as a very kind person and an outstanding public servant.
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Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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Japan is very much a TV-centred entertainment industry. So when you talk about big stars in Japan, generally they are people who are on television. I work mostly in movies.
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I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
