Hal Clement Quotes
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If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
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What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?
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I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
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The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.
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Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
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I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.
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Without network neutrality, cable and phone companies could stifle innovation.
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The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
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I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
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If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about.
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The public bus is how I got to school every day.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?
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No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can't see.
