Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) Quotes
The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'
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Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
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Character is more important than talent.
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My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
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So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
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Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.
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Our elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management function.
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Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
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The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
