John Hersey Quotes
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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I'm always weeping at something or other.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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'Power is always a relative concept.'-the illithid Yharaskrik
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The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.
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In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.
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If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.
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The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
