Charles Fenno Hoffman Quotes
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.
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Moreover, his view was precisely the one that many English Protestants feared would result from a careful analysis of the New Testament text, namely that the wide-ranging variations in the tradition showed that Christian faith could not be based solely on scripture (the Protestant Reformation doctrine of sola scriptura), since the text was unstable and unreliable. Instead, according to this view, the Catholics must be right that faith required the apostolic tradition preserved in the (Catholic) church.
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Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
