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I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go… — Chaim Potok
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in… — Wietse Venema
We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the… — Paul Weyrich
Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for the previous 5… — John Frusciante
When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history… — LaVell Edwards
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. — Lukas Foss
I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They… — Marilyn Hacker
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature… — John Boyd Orr
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want… — Edith Sitwell
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices… — Joanna Macy
Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all accidents occur in… — Mark Leslie
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. — Helene Hanff
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to peopleâ€™s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of… — Robert Farrar Capon
In previous years I was so fired up at times I made little mistakes. So I kept telling myself to be patient, relax, play like… — Randall Cunningham
"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic,… — Ken Wilber
Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a… — George Armstrong Custer
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it… — Henry David Thoreau
Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in… — Alexander Lowen
There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't… — Alan Blinder
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came… — Linda M. Godwin

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