Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?
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Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
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But don't worry... only yours is right.
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She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.
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You could fire a grapefruit out of a cannon over the best law schools in the country - and that includes Chicago - and not hit an originalist.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.
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There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
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You don't miss what you never had.
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In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.
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Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.
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Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
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The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
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These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable.
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You evidently feel that brevity is the soul of widowhood.
