Jon Ossoff Quotes
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.
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There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.
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As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
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Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.
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I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.
