Stewart Brand Quotes
There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
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I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
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What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
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My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.
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I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
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Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.
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Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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History is one damn thing after another.
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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
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The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.
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When you truly love God, you obey Him.
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I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.
