David Buss Quotes
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
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What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.
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One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.
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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
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And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.
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Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.
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Humor comes from self-confidence.
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
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Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.
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Make some time to daydream every day!
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Everything that I'm seeing in America, when it comes to the groundwater contamination and the poisoning of people I see, it's a moral issue. Nobody's ever gonna convince me that a CEO wouldn't care if his own child was poisoned.
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In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.
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The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
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He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.
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Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
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Academics are, on average, pussies.
