Christopher Columbus Quotes
The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.
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In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
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Engraving is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.
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Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years... it's called cash.
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The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.
