Bill James Quotes
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
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We so wanted to step out to something different that we made it clear to each other there were no boundaries for that. We were really just writing very uninhibitedly, but also not at all paying any attention to any context of who we were as a band, which I think was really good.
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Eternity is here (in the stable at Bethlehem and on the cross of Calvary) in time.
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There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.
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Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
