Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.
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It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
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We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.
