David Graeber Quotes
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
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Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.
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You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
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Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.
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Free government is self-government. A government of the people by the people. The best government of this sort is that which the people think best.
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The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
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It's not going to interfere with the film. I heal miraculously. I've been in an auto accident and another fire. They thought I'd need plastic surgery, but I haven't a scar...No, I don't think I'm accident prone, but it's strange.
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'Damn you!' Dagenham raged, 'Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.''Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.'
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Such is the aspect of this shore;'T is Greece, but living Greece no more!So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,We start, for soul is wanting there.
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A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
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The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
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Seems like even her old girlfriendsMight be talking her down.She's got her name on the grapevineRunning up and downThe telephone lineTalking 'boutSomeone said, someone saidSomething 'bout, something elseSomeone might have said about herShe always figured that they were her friendsBut maybe they can live without her.
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The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.
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Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
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© 2011 David Graeber
