Eric Chaisson Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.
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To a visitor who described himself as a seeker after Truth the Master said, 'If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.' 'I know. An overwhelming passion for it.' 'No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.'
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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
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I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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Paul Newman made eight of my favorite movies. He chose a certain kind of movie I really identified with.
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Because I've lived a risky and unconventional life, I don't often struggle for subjects to write about.
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I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'
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I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
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While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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But if we can’t help our latent biases, we can help our behavior in response to those instinctive reactions, which is why we work to design systems and processes that overcome that very human part of us all. Although the research may be unsettling, it is what we do next that matters most.
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The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
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Choice in any sphere is a peril, the basic division of peoples is of those who believe in choice and those who mistrust it.
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The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
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Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.
