John Shirley Quotes
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
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If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise-never the strong man.
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Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Adia I do believe I failed you.Adia I know I let you down.Don't you know I tried so hardTo love you in my way.It's easy let it go...Adia I'm empty since you left me.Trying to find a way to carry on.I search myself and everyoneTo see where we went wrong.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
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To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.
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I can't take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I'll get tired, but because I'll hurt myself! I can't do that. I might get injured.
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I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
