Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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Your basically saying when your ready to marry somebody your wanting to spend your whole life with them with their flaws and all. If your still testing them then it's something there that needs to be worked out. That really falls on the person doing the test. A lot of times it is based on insecurities.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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The poetic image exists apart from causality.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
