Gene Wolfe Quotes
The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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Only the young die good.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.
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For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it's love, and I believe that love is the answer.
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it will be a good long time before there's upward pressure on prices or wages.
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The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.
