Elizabeth Bear Quotes
Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will a bank function? We take a medium term view. The bank has an 80-year-old history. I don't want to destroy it for a few decisions.
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
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Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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War makes good history but peace is poor reading.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
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I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'
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We need to have people who are talking about, 'Here's exactly what I would do differently.' That's what's important as we go vote.
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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
