Olaf Stapledon Quotes
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
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We like to be the people who go - can go out into the world and say we're the people seeking places that need bridges built and need the kind of energy that we bring, and then actively doing the show. We will pay for it ourselves. We just want to bring the kind of enjoyment that we know we can bring.
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This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.
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Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
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My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.
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In a sick world even the hale are sick.
