Marsilio Ficino Quotes
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.
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I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.
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I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.
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I have yet to write that one song that defines my career.
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In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.
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One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.
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Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
