"As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted…" — Jonathan Evison
"As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources."
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29 Quotes by Jonathan Evison
Jonathan Evison has 29 quotes on this site.
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Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a…
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But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just…
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It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.
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If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's…
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My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
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The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention…
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Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels…
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We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters,…
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Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?
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People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is…
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Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've…
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I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long…
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More Destiny Quotes
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one of 2,702 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
— Aristotle
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
— Ansel Adams
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
— Honore de Balzac
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
— Douglas Adams
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Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.
— Dennis Banks
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Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get…
— Charles Barkley
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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