Esther Dyson Quotes
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I remember making up songs in my head.
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When people say, 'Hey, wanna come to our house for dinner?' I say, 'Yeah, what should I bring?' They say, 'How about the dessert?' I just don't skimp on the dessert. I make it the yummy way it should be made, and then I just don't eat the whole pan.
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Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
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If it were now to die, 'twere now to be most happy.
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There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
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Then came a rather surreal exchange about Joy Division T-shirts, with us proudly proclaiming we did not sell merchandise because we didn’t believe in self-promotion of any kind, preferring to let the music speak for itself. ‘Rubbish,’ boomed Scotty. ‘How come wherever I go I see Joy Division and New Order T-shirts, worn and for sale, eh?’ Now, we had no idea where he was going to see these things, but we were all speechless anyway. He continued, ‘I don’t believe you, and will be fining you accordingly.’ So we would get fined £10,000 for not doing our own T-shirts.
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It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
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Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.
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General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.
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When I was 14 years old, I used to record stuff off the radio and do mixes with the pause button on my cassette player. I’ve always loved doing mixes. I never liked sport or anything like that. Mixing tunes together was just what I always wanted to do...
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But it's continued on and it's definitely been the longest run of low scores I've had to endure in my international career.
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Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.
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It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals.
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If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
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In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth.
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Communism is the flower of idleness.
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Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.
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I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.
