Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
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I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.
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You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
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Accuracy is next to godliness.
