Edward Forbes Quotes
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
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The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
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My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses.
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
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I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
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I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.
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The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.
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When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.
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The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
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The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
