David Graeber Quotes
One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun.
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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And for to see, and eek for to be seie.
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You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.
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If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
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It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.
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The bit that I've always loved about modeling is show season: the hype, the chaos, the calm just before you walk out. It's your moment - especially when there's no one before you.
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One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun.
