Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I was hoping to go under (one minute) 29.5 and it is quite fun when the bike is working and the lap comes together.
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Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.
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I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.
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Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
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Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
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The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.
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Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.
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You see the same plain landscape day after day, and then one day, perhaps it's the play of light or the time of year, you find it beautiful and other landscapes at fault. So it must be with fashion. Ordinary judgement falls into abeyance and something else, some bewitchment, takes over. How else to explain the appeal of garments that in a few years look so ridiculous?
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Today, more than ever, trust is our license to operate.
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At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
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Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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But he didn’t know exactly where the worry was coming from. He just had a feeling. Like thunder in the sky. Only the thunder was in his stomach. There would be a storm.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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I fell in love with the thunder.
