Annie Dillard Quotes
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us.
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I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
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In my opinion the religion that makes men rebel and fight against their government is not the genuine article, nor is the religion the right sort which reconciles them to the idea of eating their bread in the sweat of other men's faces. It is not the kind to get to heaven on.
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True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.
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Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.
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I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.
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Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
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I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.
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I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
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The writer studies literature, not the world.
