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To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.


James Dickey

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JAMES SUROWIECKI Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
BILL JAMES For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just vi...
JAMES WAN As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and t...
LEBRON JAMES My desire is to bring astronomical events and objects down into your personal, lived-in space.
JAMES TURRELL Women pay attention to how men drive because it's a good indicator of what kind of character you...
JAMES MARSDEN I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.
BILL JAMES Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing princ...
JAMES DYSON I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-bus...
JAMES FRANCO Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it p...
JAMES COOK I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
JAMES SALTER The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
JAMES DYSON The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, can...
JAMES THURBER Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption...
JAMES COMEY If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology,...
JAMES SUROWIECKI The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is a...
JAMES THURBER The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and th...
JAMES BUCHAN We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consid...
JAMES MATTIS You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtu...
JAMES JONES None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the...
BILL JAMES I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere ar...
JAMES GRAY One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absen...
HENRY JAMES For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you&#...
LEBRON JAMES Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.
JAMES CRONIN Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficient...
JAMES SUROWIECKI And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the boo...
JAMES STOCKDALE The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; ...
JAMES MATTIS Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
JAMES DYSON The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of ...
JAMES FENTON I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
JAMES BROUGHTON The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
JAMES MADISON I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striki...
MARLON JAMES The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's as...
JAMES HILLMAN For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic ac...
JAMES FORRESTAL