Thomas More Quotes
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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You give the money where you want it.
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I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
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In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
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I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
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Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
