James Comey Quotes
But if we can’t help our latent biases, we can help our behavior in response to those instinctive reactions, which is why we work to design systems and processes that overcome that very human part of us all. Although the research may be unsettling, it is what we do next that matters most.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you're very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there's that feeling that the grass is always greener.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
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Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.
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Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.
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But if we can’t help our latent biases, we can help our behavior in response to those instinctive reactions, which is why we work to design systems and processes that overcome that very human part of us all. Although the research may be unsettling, it is what we do next that matters most.
