James Surowiecki Quotes
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
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When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.
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The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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I’ve watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It’s become what I call coercive compassion. It’s disgusting, it’s condescending, it’s insulting, it’s coddling, it keeps everyone in an infantile condition rather than in the adult condition that was the ultimate goal of Freudian analysis.
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Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program.
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I tend to notice work.
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I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney.
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Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
