Michael A. Stackpole Quotes
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I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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I took a break so that I can entertain my audience properly.
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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
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It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
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After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need for the competition of ideas or critical thinking. So the curriculum will be up to the school to determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will welcome this opportunity to spend a large portion of our income on education and choose an ideology at the same time.
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We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
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That boy from the music shop—he might be everything you believe he is. But in the eyes of our society, he is a convicted criminal. He has nothing to lose. He is stuck where he is. On the bottom. While you are walking away from the greatest opportunity a girl can have. To win. To become independent. To achieve international fame and choose the life you desire.
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If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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I tend to flood and freeze up if I’m feeling overwhelmed. When this happens, it’s usually because I feel like the world is crashing down and all is lost. One trick I’ve learned is to force myself to make a list of what’s actually wrong. Usually, soon into making the list, I find I can group most of the issues into two or three larger all-encompassing problems. So it’s really not all that bad. Having a finite list of problems is much better than having an illogical feeling that everything is wrong.
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Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo
