David Korten Quotes
Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.
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Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.
