Jack Vance Quotes
If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
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Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.
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Catherine: Why commit Evil?Goetz: Because Good has already been done.Catherine: Who has done it?Goetz: God the Father. I, on the other hand, am improvising.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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A day may sink or save a realm.
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There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.
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I love those who do not know how to live for today.
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We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.
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My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade.
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We're on the radar now. There is no hiding.
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If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.
