Susan Cheever Quotes
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
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The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
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At first glance it would seem, of course, that no two subjects could possibly be further apart than an underground society of pickup artists and supercomputer chess. What on earth do these two narratives have to do with each other—and what do they have to do with asserting myself as human in the Turing test? The answer is surprising, and it hinges on what chess players call “getting out of book.” We’ll look at what that means in chess and in conversation, how to make it happen, and what the consequences are if you don’t.
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I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.
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The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way.
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It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
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There is no such thing as expecting too much.
