Joshua Foer Quotes
Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.
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After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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All I've done all my life is disobey.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
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When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.
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I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.
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A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.
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A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.
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My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
