Charles C. Mann Quotes
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him. They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
