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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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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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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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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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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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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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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This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
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Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.
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Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
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I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.
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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
