Herbert Spencer Quotes
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
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My mom does mine because I know I would go tweezer-crazy and wind up with no eyebrows at all.
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I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008
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'I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.' 'You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks,' Gansey mused as he began to walk again. Blue blinked. 'What?' Over his shoulder, Gansey said, 'Next to the wall plug.'
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
