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Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.
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Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it.
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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.
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I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.
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Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.
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He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasnt your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.
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I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
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You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
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This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.
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We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.
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People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.
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