Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
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Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
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I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.
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I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.
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Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.
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No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
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I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
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On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
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Youth is truth.
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She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.
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Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
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When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
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We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
