George Saunders Quotes
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
George Saunders
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
Eavan Boland
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
Tamra Davis
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
Cam Newton
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
Jack Wagner
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
Halima Aden
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
Gary Johnson
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Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
Manmohan Singh
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For the Amex, which has been casting around for a role for itself, microcaps fill a crucial void - a 'niche' that Amex officials feel has been neglected.
Gary Weiss
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Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.
Lana Parrilla
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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
John Lothrop Motley
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His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.
Laini Taylor
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I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.'
Jen Sincero
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The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
Robin LaFevers
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I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
Marquis De Custine
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Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
George Saunders
