Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
Laila Ali
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
Carl Honore
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Walter Kirn
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I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more sense than any other idiotic kid. Somewhere along in here I need to grow up into a man I can stand to live with. A man who doesn't just survive, but deserves to.
Orson Scott Card
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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
Jonathan Sacks
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I am very down to earth and practical.
Ashley Olsen
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When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
Alexandra Daddario
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
Lois Wyse
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'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
