Eric Hobsbawm Quotes
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.
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Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.
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I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.
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It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
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I want to be naked running through the streets, I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be.
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Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.
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to camera Excuse me for just a second. walks off-camera, to studio audience Shut up!
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I know I must live in France, but I don't want to cut myself off from America. France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that's why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it's like shouting in a forest. There's no echo.
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Christ died for the truth.
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The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don't want to be a part of it.
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I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.
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My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.
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But I've become completely obsessed with taking photos on my iPhone. I have like 400 apps.
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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.
