Charles Best Quotes
I get my share of 'cold' requests via LinkedIn from people who are launching non-profit or for-profit ventures and who request a meeting to get my input or help. I wish I could say yes to all of them, but given limited bandwidth, I say yes to the subset who've written a compelling description of their work and who are underrepresented.
Quotes to Explore
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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When people want to be associated with us, in the end, that's going to help us gain more fans.
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I get my share of 'cold' requests via LinkedIn from people who are launching non-profit or for-profit ventures and who request a meeting to get my input or help. I wish I could say yes to all of them, but given limited bandwidth, I say yes to the subset who've written a compelling description of their work and who are underrepresented.
