J. A. Konrath Quotes
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.
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At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.
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Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
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A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
