Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
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Very often, I think about the people that I represent. I meet people who have thousands and thousands of employees and millions and millions of customers - and also make a lot of money. But I think about the millions of Europeans that I represent in order to try to balance that so we can meet on more equal terms.
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I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
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Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
