Chris Prentiss Quotes
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Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.
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I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.
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Might let him take it home and slaughter that/ He got friends for all of my friends/ They ain't leaving 'till we say when/ And we gon' hangover the next day.
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Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.
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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.
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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.
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That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.
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My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
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If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.
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Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.
