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Robert J. Ringer

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know an ovulating lady is by observing how suddenly gay she has become.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to command everything to suddenly become cheap is by getting used to buying them.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become a leader is by learning to have vision,integrity & control.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to have more money is by learning to spend less than you earn.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to live without almost anybody in life lies within you,just get used to their absence.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome procastination is by learning to do things today.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to overcome dissappointment in life is by learning to attempt one more time.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know that life is a temporal abode is by learning never to underate death.
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ROBERT J. SHILLER I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.
ROBERT J. SAWYER "It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
ROBERT J. OPPENHEIMER The sincere student of Scripture cannot avoid the truth of God's choice of individuals from among th...
ROBERT J. LIGHTNER The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, tw...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Manners matter, asserts the professor. What provokes rebellion, he asserts, is not as often a theory...
ROBERT J. ALLISON One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thank...
J. ROBERT MOSKIN That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunch...
ROBERT J. SAWYER If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least f...
ROBERT J. SAWYER To be a success, you will have people walk out on you, walk over you, and walk away from you. If the...
ROBERT J. BRAATHE We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were ...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.
ROBERT J. MORRISSETTE Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At wh...
J. ROBERT MOSKIN The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scient...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for th...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot o...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for t...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy...
ROBERT J. FISHER The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON In order to get people to love you, you've got to get some people to hate you
ROBERT J. BRAATHE I have no intentions of resigning.
ROBERT J. BENTLEY George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I speci...
ROBERT J. SHILLER A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, a...
ROBERT J. FISHER Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience...
ROBERT J. SHILLER Forth & Towne was a great test of a promising concept and an illustration of the innovative risk...
ROBERT J. FISHER A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to...
ROBERT J. ALLISON To the confusion of our enemies.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the firs...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
ROBERT J. SAWYER My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT