C. H. Dodd (Charles Harold Dodd) Quotes
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
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Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
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People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
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The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.
