James Surowiecki Quotes
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.
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A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
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You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
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I will not offer my thoughts on what Japan could and should have done, this is none of my business, it is the business of the Japanese leadership. But we should understand how practicable all our agreements are as a whole given the allied obligations Japan has assumed, how much independence there is in making those decision, and what we can hope for, what we can ultimately arrive at.
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We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
