Padgett Powell Quotes
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
Padgett Powell
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang
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Abraham Verghese
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Natalie Massenet
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Jerry Cantrell talking about Chris Cornell at the press room of the Rock and Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. YouTube (April 14, 2018).
Jerry Cantrell
This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
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George Pataki
New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
Padgett Powell