John Gardner Quotes
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,And broke the die, in molding Sheridan.
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When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.
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We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.
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The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.
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Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there...
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There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
