George Pattison Quotes
When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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We need all the newfangled web-based Internet spread, you know, social media that can catalyze, you know, some serious consciousness about what's going on. But we also need people on the streets pounding the pavement to make a significant and dramatic appearance to suggest that what's going on here is unacceptable.
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.
