Harry Mathews Quotes
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
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It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.
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All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.
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Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
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There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.
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He who can not learn to love must flatter.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.
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I am suggesting that quality in undergraduate education means giving students a perspective that is global.
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Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.
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When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.
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When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner.
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We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do either creates the framework for continuing the supreme adventure of life and consciousness on this planet or sets the stage for its termination. The choice before us is urgent and important: it can neither be postponed nor ignored.
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My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.
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We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
