David Grossman Quotes
You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
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The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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I like to get real pretty.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
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In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
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When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.
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If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.
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I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.
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What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.
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You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
