George W. Buck Quotes
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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How many times have you opened a book, read the first few sentences and made a snap decision about whether to buy it? When it's your book that's coming under this casual-but-critical scrutiny, you want the reader to be instantly hooked. The way to accomplish this is to create compelling opening sentences.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.
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Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.
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If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life, and we the democracies of this world are going to have to come together and fight it together.
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All are my friends. I have no enemies.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
