Bias of Priene Quotes
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
H. R. McMaster -
How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
Nancy Kress -
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri -
We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.
Carl Karcher -
During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
Ike Skelton -
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.
Pat Burns -
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis -
First you put in, then you get out.
Brian Tracy -
Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...
Joanne Rowling -
You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix
Kami Garcia
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What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.
Jimmy Buffett -
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Rita Mae Brown -
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length.
Robert Frost -
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.
Bruce Sterling -
Musicians own music because music owns them.
Virgil Thomson
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Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
William Howard Taft -
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
Barbara Brennan -
Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.
Gautama Buddha -
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices.
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