Solon Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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Music is about the performance.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we should do it all. Because then I think we start to fail our customers and we're too focused on taking over the world.
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I love twins stories.
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I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart, the same that had burst out of my chest in that distant moment when Lila had proposed that we write a story together. It had fallen to me to do it seriously. But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts, which no one would ever do better than me, not even Lila if she had had the opportunity?
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I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
