George Carey Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
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The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was. Remember the Wallmakers. Remember Me.
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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The PC police are out in force at all times. ... We've reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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'Falling Skies' is not just about aliens attacking. It's also about humanity, survival, hope and the determination to rebuild our world, starting from pretty much nothing.
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I like warming my butt by the fire.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
