Katharine Tynan Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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Twenty kilometers. At an average speed of 120 klicks per hour, we should cover the distance in ten minutes. Ten freezing, adrenaline-pumping, gorge-rising, terror-beating-against-the-ribs, react-in-a-microsecond-or-die seconds.
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I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
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They need to read the Scriptures; where it says in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 17, it says: 'Shut the fuck up.' That's the King James version, by the way.
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It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
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Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.
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Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
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I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.
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You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
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The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
