Gerald Brenan Quotes
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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Change cannot come from one politician, it has to come from each one of us and not just for today...it's a gradual process. Let's be responsible & work towards it.
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Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
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I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.
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How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
