Jeff Berwick Quotes
By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?
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There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.
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In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.
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To have good energy policy we have to have good investments.
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It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.
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By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.
