Abba Eban Quotes
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you.
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Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons as they were in fact used dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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Historically in every recovery, because the president rightly did inherit a recession. But historically, the lagging indicator always deals with employment.
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Loyalty is the Tory's secret weapon.
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The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.