John Brunner Quotes
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.
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As a trader you often walk on the blade. Be careful and don't step off.
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Ὅρκοις τὰ μὴ δίκαια μὴ νικᾶν λέγω.
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Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.1
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I went to a pretty small school from the beginning all the way up, so I knew everyone, everyone knew me.
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For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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I think Sean could play running back. I think he could play receiver. I think he could play corner, ... Any expanded role is something we'll continue to work with because he's so unusual.
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A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.
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Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.
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How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
