Ben Saunders Quotes
I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
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It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.
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When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
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We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes.
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We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
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No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.
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I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
