George Amos Dorsey Quotes
As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
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That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
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There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and complacency. It can only be explained by the quality of flesh to become calloused to situations that if faced suddenly would provoke blisters and revolt.
