Anaxagoras Quotes
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons.
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I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
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I have become quite good at repurposing and reusing much of what comes into the house. The goal is to generate as little waste as possible.
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I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken.
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Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.
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I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we have to live with less. We have a $13.5 trillion debt. And the only way to do that is an honest campaign with honest people.
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Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
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Wrestling is the ultimate martial art.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.
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That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.
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Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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I got three years invested in Brett Hundley, two years invested in Joe Callahan. The quarterback room is exactly where it needs to be.
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For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves, for they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. But this proveth rather that men are in that point equal, than unequal. For there is not ordinarily a greater sign of the equal distribution of any thing than that every man is contented with his share.
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Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.
