Jack McDevitt Quotes
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.
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I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.
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The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.
