Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
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I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.
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I think you can safely say that the mystery in 'Twin Peaks' as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
