Edwin A. Abbott Quotes
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
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To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.
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There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
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Passion is born of vague hopes.
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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If I stay at home, I'm not famous. I'm only famous when I'm out in the streets, so I don't go out on the streets much.
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To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.
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When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.
