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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I always begin to compose the melody first.
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The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.
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Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
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I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.
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Look for and find the really good horses in your organization and run them hard. Push them and challenge them with greater levels of responsibility.
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Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.
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Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
