Janet Malcolm Quotes
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
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I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
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I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was not intended for young readers.
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No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
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The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
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My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.
