A. C. Benson Quotes
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
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The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
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Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.
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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
