Lois McMaster Quotes
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative.
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
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All our steps in creating or absorbing material of the record proceed through one of the senses - the tactile when we touch keys, the oral when we speak or listen, the visual when we read. Is it not possible that some day the path may be established more directly?
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Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
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A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.
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The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
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Why? Surely they can find other men.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
