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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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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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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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
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I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
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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.
