Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.
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Let me speak to you as someone who is a republican, like Stuart Stevens who worked for Romney, right? He said if Barack Obama in '08 had said, oh, you know, Vladimir Putin is better than George W. Bush as a leader, he said republicans would have said Obama, get out of the race. You're a disgrace to the American people.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
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There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
