Colin Wilson Quotes
It is not enough to accept a concept of order and live by it; that is cowardice, and such cowardice cannot result from freedom. Chaos must be faced. Real order must be preceded by a descent into chaos.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When I was a teacher, I'd walk into the classroom. I stood at the board. I was the man. I directed operations. I was an intellectual and artistic and moral traffic cop, and I - and I would direct the class, most of the time.
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Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.
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Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.
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Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.
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It is not enough to accept a concept of order and live by it; that is cowardice, and such cowardice cannot result from freedom. Chaos must be faced. Real order must be preceded by a descent into chaos.
