David Korten Quotes
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.
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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you're looking for in order to find it.
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A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought, especially at night.
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Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
