Jacques Delors Quotes
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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I want to have a long career.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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You should approach everything in life like, 'What is this?'
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I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.
