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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Arthur C. Clarke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008

Topics

Knowledge Thinking Questions Worth

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Tracy Chevalier

Family Child Green Writing Thought

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Failure Start Think Thinking You

I think I've got a responsibility to be home a little bit more, be available to my family a little bit more and do some things to help make our country better. I don't know what that is right now, but we'll see.

Family Home Responsibility Better

I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.

I Can Watching Without Things About

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

Work Future Service Public Service

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

Michael Redhill

Business Great Depression Empathy

I always think 12 times before saying anything.

Saying Think Always Anything Before

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

Good Adversity Character Best Rest

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

Work People Attention You Pay Like

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

Party Independent Regardless Tenure

I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.

Annie Wersching

Big Tourist Away Stay Traps Tend

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

Leadership Government Stand Up Stand

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