Armin Wiebe Quotes
The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.
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Stop talking about the way things are, unless you like them.
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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
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So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
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Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.
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The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
