William Stephenson Quotes
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I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
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A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
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... every dog is allowed one bite.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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I do not like Melbourne in its present state.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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In your thinking be a goal setter, but in your actions be a goal getter.
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All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
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They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".
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Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.
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We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
