Esther Dyson Quotes
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M., wake up at 1 A.M. when my grandma would cook me breakfast, and then I'd pass out again.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me
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I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.
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The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.
