Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The first music I loved on my own was punk.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
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Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.
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A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
