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• This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

  Saint Augustine

  Risk, Doe, Way

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• The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Poor, Aids

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• Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

  Lorrie Moore

  Philosophy, Eight, Stupidity

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011

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• And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

  Elon Musk

  Morning, Things In Life, Needs

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• It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Hands, Weapons

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.243

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• Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Heart, Hands

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• The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  Life Is, Reason

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• In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Men, Self, Space

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• Then one day, we’ll put the reward in the old place, and put in the rat, and, by golloy, the old habit will rememerge right away. habits never really disappear. They’re encoded into the sturctures of our brain, and that’s a huge advantage for us, because it would be awful if we had to relearn how to drive after every vacation. The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

  Charles Duhigg

  Vacation, Old Habits, Differences

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• There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Teacher, People

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• To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

  Peter L. Berger

  Mean, Social, Force

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

  Brian Lumley

  Father, Army, Years

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• If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, Eagles, Together

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• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  Taylor Branch

  Doors, Race, Government

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

  John Denver

  Fans, Mail, I Can

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• Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed to discerning that fine hair’s-breadth worth of difference that makes one hopeless dipstick slightly less awful than the other. But it does raise the question: Why bother?

  Molly Ivins

  Hair, Texas, Differences

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Different

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• Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

  Rue McClanahan

  Sex, Interesting, Sound

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• There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

  George Pataki

  Children, Home, Government

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• The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, Magic, Insensitive

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2016). “A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century”, p.129, Crown Forum

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• It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

  Colum McCann

  Beautiful, Silence, Heard

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.

  Terry Fox

  Cancer, Waiting, Important

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• Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

  Chuck Close

  Work, Inspiration, Ideas

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• If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Moon, Ideas, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, People, Able

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.122, Anchor

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