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Quotes by Writer
"He dragged me back - just in time. A tree had crashed down on to the side walk, just missing us. Poirot stared at it, pale and upset. "It was a near thing that! But clumsy, all the same - for I had no suspicion - at least hardly any suspicion. Yes, but for my quick eyes, the eyes of a cat, Hercule Poirot might now be crushed out of existence - a terrible calamity for the world. And you, too, mon ami - though that would not be such a national catastrophe." "Thank you," I said coldly."
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"I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science."
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"To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe."
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"All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle."
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"If you terminate a person from your life who is very toxic towards your reputation, you can actually lead yourself pertaining a career that you desire without any interference."
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"It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories."
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"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities."
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"It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable."
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"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
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"Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get."
34
"Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine."
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"Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards."
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"And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade."
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"What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?"
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"If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones."
Life,
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"It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better."
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"I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc."
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"Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply."
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"It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit."
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"You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time."
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"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
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"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
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"If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey."
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"I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition."
Man,
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"I am happy.I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.I am happy."
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