Stephen Lewis (Stephen Henry Lewis) Quotes
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.
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Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.
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It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.
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Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.
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Anything you can settle with money is cheap.
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Who am I? What am I? Why am I?
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
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One other specific piece of guidance we've offered is that low-quality content on some parts of a website can impact the whole site’s rankings, and thus removing low quality pages, merging or improving the content of individual shallow pages into more useful pages, or moving low quality pages to a different domain could eventually help the rankings of your higher-quality content.
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When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.
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When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.
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When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.
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LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
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The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.
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Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
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I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
