Alexander C. Irvine Quotes
The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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Love is only one of many passions.
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Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.
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Anybody want a binary telemetry frame editor written in Perl?
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Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.
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To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.
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When you're not being heard - I can't tell you what to do when you're not being heard. I do think there is a way to move in love and get things done, though.
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The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
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I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
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The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.
