Daniel Okrent Quotes
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
Daniel Okrent
Quotes to Explore
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
Karen Armstrong
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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
Jacob Bronowski
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Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
Marcus Aurelius
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It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.
Christopher Hitchens
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Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.
Matt Taibbi
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
Jane Smiley
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We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief.
Jeff Duncan
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Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
Allen Wheelis
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Errantes silva in magna et sub luce malignainter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaveret tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcentfleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.
Ausonius
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
Yo-Yo Ma
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
Pritam Chakraborty
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If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.
Daniel Okrent
