M. Scott Peck Quotes
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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Holding on to the weak is called strength.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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The religious foundations of America have been completely expurgated from our history textbooks.
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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
