Alex Tan Quotes
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
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My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
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Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.
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Cultural and ethnic diversity benefit humanity’s future, survival, strength and excellence, promoting what I call cultural vigour, similar to the way in which molecular and genetic diversity promote 'hybrid vigor' in nature and thus strength, resilience and a higher potential for a problem-free future.
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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
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The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward - this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul.'
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What nature of being are we that even our dreams can be compromised?
