Ernest Cline Quotes
Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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Our psychology is … a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. It Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.
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Showing up is not all of life, but it counts for a lot.
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It wasn't quite what is seemed: a lack of pleasantries (My able body isn't what it used to be) I must admit I was charmed by your advances Your advantage left me helplessly into you
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
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I saturated myself with the improv community.
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I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
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The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.
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I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that.
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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.