James Surowiecki Quotes
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I like being unconventional.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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The one question, the one principle, the one crisis in art of the twentieth century centers in the uncompromising 'purity' of art, and in the consciousness that art comes from art only, not from anything else.
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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
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Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
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We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
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All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.
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The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
