Dikembe Mutombo Quotes
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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If you want the world to knowWe won't let hatred growPut a little love in your heart.
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You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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This is the tip of the iceberg of a very oppressive regime that we have almost become accustomed to in America.
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I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.
