Nick Bantock Quotes
The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.
Quotes to Explore
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Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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The key with autonomous is the whole ecosystem. One of the keys to having truly fully autonomous is vehicles talking to each other.
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It's really hard to watch yourself on TV. It's definitely different in that the world has to watch, too.
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For Web-based services, owning the .com is very important when considering search and discovery. But consider your channel. For companies playing in the mobile app space, the dot com may be less important - it's about status and searchability in the app store.
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I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.
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I taught high school students Spanish.
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Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
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Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many 'intelligent' systems that shape how we are categorized and advertised to.
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You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
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In many parts of our country, geography and population density can make it difficult to attract private investment. These communities depend on federal investments to maintain and upgrade their transportation systems and stay competitive. And we know that it's an investment worth making. Because when rural America succeeds, we all do.
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We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.
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The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.
