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Lionel Shriver Quotes

Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1957

Topics

You Hiroshima Depressing Something

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

Past Reputation In The Past Acquired

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character Aim Everyone Chief Ought

It wasn't until my teenage years that a book really left a mark, and that was George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four.' It was on the syllabus at school when I was about 16, and I went on to read more of his books. It was the height of the Cold War, so a lot of the messages really resonated at the time.

Time School War Book Cold Height

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

Great Beginning Mind Ambition You

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Life You Complaining Something Your

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Habit People Easy Hard Anything

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Good Community Best Religion Self

Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.

Good Business Conflict Story Place

But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.

Fool Champion Think Generation Die

Our nation's vital infrastructure - such as power grids and transportation hubs - becomes more vulnerable when individual devices get hacked. Criminals and terrorists who want to infiltrate systems and disrupt sensitive networks may start their attacks through access to just one person's smartphone.

Craig Federighi

Power Start Transportation Person

Everyone in London, Wales, and France made the 'Merlin' experience a very, very special one.

Experience Special London Everyone

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Experience Death Impossible Carry

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