Nicholson Baker Quotes
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
Ian Millar
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
Hannah Kent
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
Baltasar Kormakur
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
D. Elton Trueblood
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Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.
Malcolm Fraser
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
Fernando Pessoa
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The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.
Wendell Berry
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Strangely, although the world is already full of fearful things, mortals seems always to hunt for new worries.
Tad Williams
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Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare? A Blessing, we should use it, should we not? And if a Curse - why, then, Who set it there?
Omar Khayyam
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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
Jane Austen
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If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.
Christie Hefner
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That’s why paradigm shifts are so disruptive and painful: they bring into question the operating assumptions that underlie the existing economic and social models as well as the belief system that accompanies them and the worldview that legitimizes them.
Jeremy Rifkin
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There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
W. H. Auden
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True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.
Epes Sargent
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My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.
Geoffrey Hinton
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Poetry is prose in slow motion.
Nicholson Baker
