Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
This, at least, is the accepted explanation, though like most economic explanations it seems, under certain lights, to omit the main point.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.
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We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
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Moms get their fair share of conflicting advice, with a heaping of unsolicited advice. Parents debate the pros/cons of different types of disposable diapers, whether the supposed carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson baby products hurt their kids who used it, which method of sleep training to use.
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Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Admitted mama's boy here - put that on the record.
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I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.
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Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.
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This, at least, is the accepted explanation, though like most economic explanations it seems, under certain lights, to omit the main point.
