H. Rider Haggard Quotes
Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
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The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to look and feel like a grown woman when I was young. That's one reason why it's important to hold adults who take advantage of that fully accountable.
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I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
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The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.
