Garrison Wynn Quotes
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
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Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!
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Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.
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It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
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None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian flagged and crewed vessel.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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A lot of people think teenagers haven't gone through anything in their lives - they're not even 20 years old yet. But a twenty-something can go through the same type of experience or heartbreak that a 50-year-old can go through, so why does age matter?
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I was reminded as I was reviewing my life, that I have been in too many conflicts, too many wars, political battles, military battles, civil strifes in government. And always one lesson stands out and that is, those whom you fight most passionately often turn out to be your best friends.
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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.
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The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.
