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Went Quotes

The pulpit only teaches to be honest; the market place trains to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good Picture Quote #1

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty first century Picture Quote #1

I spend... Twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... Depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it Picture Quote #1

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down

Twenty is in hot haste to become a year older and cast its first vote, which Forty will know was cast like the legendary pearls Picture Quote #1

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went Picture Quote #1

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So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent. And it broke in three places when it finally went. It wanted only to say what it meant. So it suffered every punishment Picture Quote #1

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive Picture Quote #1

I do know that girls in their early twenties are easy and sweet. (Girls in their late twenties are easier but sad, and that isn't so sweet.) They are easy, I think, because they are sweet, and they are sweet, I think, because they are dumb Picture Quote #1

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others Picture Quote #1

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away Picture Quote #1

What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal Picture Quote #1

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I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible Picture Quote #1

The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system Picture Quote #1

Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course Picture Quote #1

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska Picture Quote #1

Nine-tenths of english poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties Picture Quote #1

When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through Picture Quote #1

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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life Picture Quote #1

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore Picture Quote #1

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young Picture Quote #1

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son-and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him Picture Quote #1

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman,

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came Picture Quote #1

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Three fishers went sailing away to the west, away to the west as the sun went down; each thought on the woman who loved him the best, and the children stood watching them out of the town Picture Quote #1

Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us Picture Quote #1

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties Picture Quote #1

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age Picture Quote #1

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see Picture Quote #1

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else Picture Quote #1

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The pulpit only teaches to be honest; the market place trains to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good (Went Quotes) Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty first century (Went Quotes) I spend... Twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... Depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it (Went Quotes) When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life (Went Quotes) Twenty is in hot haste to become a year older and cast its first vote, which Forty will know was cast like the legendary pearls (Went Quotes) There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went (Went Quotes) So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent. And it broke in three places when it finally went. It wanted only to say what it meant. So it suffered every punishment (Went Quotes) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive (Went Quotes) I do know that girls in their early twenties are easy and sweet. (Girls in their late twenties are easier but sad, and that isn't so sweet.) They are easy, I think, because they are sweet, and they are sweet, I think, because they are dumb (Went Quotes) This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others (Went Quotes) The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away (Went Quotes) What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal (Went Quotes) I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible (Went Quotes) The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system (Went Quotes) Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course (Went Quotes) When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska (Went Quotes) Nine-tenths of english poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties (Went Quotes) When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through (Went Quotes) A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life (Went Quotes) If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore (Went Quotes) Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young (Went Quotes) It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son-and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him (Went Quotes) I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "where's the self-help section?" she said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose (Went Quotes) The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came (Went Quotes) Three fishers went sailing away to the west, away to the west as the sun went down; each thought on the woman who loved him the best, and the children stood watching them out of the town (Went Quotes) Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us (Went Quotes) Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties (Went Quotes) The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age (Went Quotes) The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see (Went Quotes) In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else (Went Quotes)

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