Jack Vance Quotes
'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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Some there are who are nothing else than a passage for food and augmentors of excrement and fillers of privies, because through them no other things in the world, nor any good effects are produced, since nothing but full privies results from them.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'
