Connie Brockway Quotes
Without remorse she gave good-bye to her fantasies. They'd served their purpose, they'd awoken her heart to its potential. But as far as using them as a template for her life ...
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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He wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.
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'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
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I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
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We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
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Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
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There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.
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For the foreseeable future, I'm all about building blockchain-based decentralized services.
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A Vastness, as a Neighbor, came,A Wisdom, without Face, or Name,A Peace, as Hemispheres at HomeAnd so the Night became.
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Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.
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Without remorse she gave good-bye to her fantasies. They'd served their purpose, they'd awoken her heart to its potential. But as far as using them as a template for her life ...
