Colin Wilson Quotes
Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
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I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?
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Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers
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Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.
