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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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
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Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.
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Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?
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Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
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There are very serious reasons to doubt that Jesus was buried decently and that his tomb was discovered to be empty ... Faith is not historical knowledge, and historical knowledge is not faith.
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As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.
