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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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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To attempt to hold fast an instant id doubtful.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
