Ben Saunders Quotes
I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
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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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We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.
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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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Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.
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I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.
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Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
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All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young. THINK TWICE before using hot 'merchandise'!!!
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.
