Spider Robinson Quotes
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Most people can recall schoolyard confrontations with with bullies. Boys were expected to deal with them by standing their ground and slugging it out, even, as one man told me, "if you knew you were going to get your head bashed in. You had to show you could take it, and you'd die rather than cry.
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Dreams are the seedlings of reality.
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Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?
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Unlike a lot of my cohorts from the '80s and '90s who totally blamed the shortness of their careers on bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains and Soundgarden and whatever, I was very into a lot of those bands.
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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
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The lie that started it all.
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My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
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Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
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If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
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The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.
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If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.
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Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?
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Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
