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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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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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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After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.
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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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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Margaret Thatcher is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in subsequent editions, I do not know.
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We get things wrong before we get things right.
