Tim Pratt Quotes
Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Tim Pratt
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
Tammy Blanchard
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
Mahmoud Abbas
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
Maajid Nawaz
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
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If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
Nathan Myhrvold
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
Sam Kean
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes
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What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Football lost its excitement for me.
Eric Cantona
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I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers.
Meg Wheatley
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As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.
W. G. Sebald
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
Robert Frost
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You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.
Brian Tracy
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Birds the more white, against green streamBlooms burst to flame, against blue hillsI glance, the spring is gone again.What day, what day, can I go home?
Du Fu
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There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests.
Ward McAllister
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Being ruled by a depraved poet-king who is sacrified each spring is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Tim Pratt
