Robin Sloan Quotes

When MUDs appeared, that was an entirely novel experience, and often an addictive one. Long before Twitter or Snapchat, MUDs inspired the moral panic of the moment: a 1993 'Wired' article titled 'The Dragon Ate My Homework' described university students losing themselves in these virtual worlds. Keep in mind: they were just words on a screen.

Robin Sloan

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Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady... Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing.

Jodi Kantor

LegacyLadyKindNeverFirstSeen

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

Robert Rainy

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Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Russell M. Nelson

WisdomChildrenParentsChurchLearn

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Democritus

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Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love', now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

Chloe Sevigny

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I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

Anthony Braxton

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Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

Shereen El Feki

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I know I'm an overachiever, and I'm not apologetic about it.

Tyra Banks

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I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there.

Tyron Woodley

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You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

Ricky Gervais

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