Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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Our democratic values also include - and our national security demands - open and transparent government. Some information obviously needs to be protected. And since his first days in office, President Obama has worked to strike the proper balance between the security the American people deserve and the openness our democratic society expects.
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My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.
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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.