Alastair Mackenzie Quotes
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.
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Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
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I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.
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Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.
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Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
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Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
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The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
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A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.
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I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.
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The Forgotten Realms is arguable the most detailed, intricate fantasy setting ever created this side of Middle Earth. It's a setting for many D&D game products and lots of fiction. It is vast, historically and geographically and so contains just about anything you might imagine, at one place or time or another. Created by Ed Greenwood. And, for the record, Ed Greenwood is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.
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I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.
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I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.
