S. Bear Bergman Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.
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So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.
