David Deming Quotes
Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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Santana has fantastic ball reaction, ... Very few people can snatch a ball right out of the air like that. And he has great burst. He can be running and he doesn't even put his hands up because he has such confidence. He's very much a downfield threat.
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Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
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I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
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Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
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Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
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In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.
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It is no disgrace to start all over; it is usually an opportunity.
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I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
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Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
