George Will Quotes
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
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Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.
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I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.
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The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.
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I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.
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Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.
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Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc.
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It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.
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Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
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Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
