Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
Vannevar Bush
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
Nadia Comaneci
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo
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Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
Dan Gilbert
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There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
will.i.am
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The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.
Steven Spielberg
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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. It is always hungry for bread, sweaty with labor, struggling to wrest from nature and hostile men enough to feed its children. The welfare of the mass is always at odds with the selfish force of the strong.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
Janine di Giovanni
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I love to read aloud.
Cornelia Funke
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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
Ursula K. Le Guin
