Chris Hedges Quotes
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
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It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'
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I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.
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Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.
