B. R. Hayden Quotes
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Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
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I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.
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We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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A vacation home is a wonderful 'extra' as you start building wealth. Remember, though, it's still basically a very large, very expensive toy.
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It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.
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It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back.
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I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.
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I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don't know why.
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So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
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We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.
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When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.
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We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.
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I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay and all the rest of it. But the poems at the start of District and Circle Anahorish 1944, The Aerodromearent particularly aimed as criticism. On the contrary, there's a recognition of the big contribution to world order made in Europe during World War II.
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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
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Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
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There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.
