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I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
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It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.
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The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.
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I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing.
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There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.
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Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.
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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
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William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.
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People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.
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I need to get back to work,†Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. “Killer skirt. Deadly legs.
