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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject. Noel Riley Fitch
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Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or place. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. Joseph Campbell
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs. Will Rogers
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Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. A. S. Byatt
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I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book. Denis O'Hare
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My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice. Dan Wakefield
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Mental illnesses involve biological brain disorders, no matter what Tom Cruise says, Brad Grey
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The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.
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There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again. Norman MacCaig
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There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.
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We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.
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We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.
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Where one burns books, one will soon burn people. Heinrich Heine
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I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. Nina Jacobson
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When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' Nicolas Roeg
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I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. Nikki Grimes
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The people who bought in 2003 or sooner ... they generally have enough equity that they're going to do all right.
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We've already been there and bought blow-dryers. We forgot them.
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We've all bought into it. It's the key to us winning the series. Most of their offence is developed out of the neutral zone. We have to do it. They are so good at finding those holes. We think it's something that has to be done. Shawn Horcoff
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I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance. Lexa Doig
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I always liked performing in front of my parents' friends. My dad bought me a karaoke machine, and I would put on a Michael Jackson song like 'Thriller,' and I would come out with, like, a hat and a jacket, and, like, moonwalk in my socks, so I was always performing. Nolan Sotillo
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When we were working on 'Looking' in San Francisco, I bought a new bike from Mission Bicycle Company, which I'm completely in love with. Murray Bartlett
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When we bought this place we were told this wasn't considered a flood zone. So if I had to pay more for insurance I would be a little upset.
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When we bought this house, we designated this room the library, Karl Marx
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When we bought it, Spiegel was in a difficult situation; it made a loss at that time. We invested in it and then it turned around, and then we bought Eddie Bauer and Newport News.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
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This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
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Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. Charles Caleb Colton
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Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
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Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
life distance journey
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
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If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.
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When I was a little girl, I lived for modeling and fashion - I used to love, love, love modeling. Chanel Iman
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I was very fortunate, because I don't think many people get to spend time with their great-grandfathers. So, he passed away when I was 15, so I spent a lot of time with him. We lived together. He traveled a lot, but when he was here, we lived together. Kumar Mangalam Birla
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I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people. Evangeline Lilly
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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She doesn't seem to have been the society type or one to flaunt her wealth, but she lived well.
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We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.
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I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have. Tom Watson
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go. Diane von Furstenberg
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Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places. Dhani Jones
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There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London. Yotam Ottolenghi
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It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. Cory Doctorow
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living. P. J. O'Rourke
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When I look back, there are so many places where we can improve.
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Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?' Lynsey Addario
places positive
We have positive places around this community. One of them is Townsend Center.
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There's a great place to go when you're broke--to work! Dave Ramsey