Jack Vance Quotes
Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like possessions.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.
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The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
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When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.
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I am in the hunger business; it is what we do exclusively, 24/7, and I am sorry to tell you that business is booming.
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The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.
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When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases I’m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
