Spider Robinson Quotes
Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.
Spider Robinson
Quotes to Explore
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My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.
Damien Fahey
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You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.
William Stafford
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Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
Ernest Gellner
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The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
Anthony Giddens
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The police never saw a noun they didn't want to turn into a verb, so it quickly became "to action", as in you action me to undertake a Falcon assessment, I action a Falcon assessment, a Falcon assessment has been actioned and we all action in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
This, to review a major inqurity is to review the list of "actions" and their consequences, in the hope that you'll spot something that thirty-odd highly trained and experienced detectives didn't.
Ben Aaronovitch
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I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.
Brian Regan
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Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.
Catherine Martin
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I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.
Adam Carolla
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What's the point of going out, we're just going to end up back here anyway?
Dan Castellaneta
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
Patrick Ness
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Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.
D. Todd Christofferson
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When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.
Chogyam Trungpa
