H. G. Wells Quotes
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
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As I said this morning, I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world. I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger. But I do believe in the necessity of great powers working together to preserve the human race, or otherwise we can be destroyed.
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A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
