Jeremy Rifkin Quotes
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
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I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
