George Washington Quotes
One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.
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When I was younger, on weekends, my mom would make us pancakes with our initials on them and then a tiny cup of coffee. I remember at 10 sneaking my own coffee and pouring a ton of sugar in and going up to the playroom and drinking it.
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I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.
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The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.
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Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.
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I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you.
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One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.
