Yitzhak Navon Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.
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Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.
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There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
