Alistair Cockburn Quotes
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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As a real estate investor, you're ultimately accountable to you and your checkbook. Of course, you will need to stay on top of your local coding regulations and ordinances. But once you get the hang of it, you really shouldn't have any problems with ordinances.
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The Ford Flex is a really, really cool car. You get inside and you have so much headroom and it's really comfortable to drive and it's real techy inside. You look at the screen and it's blue and you've got all kinds of controls. Everything is digital.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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Prudence is the virtue of that part of the intellect the calculative to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.
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Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
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We get things wrong before we get things right.
