Flann O'Brien Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?
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The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
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If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
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The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
