Peter Diamandis Quotes
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
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I can earn more in a single weekend of convetioneering than I would in an entire month drawing comics. And I get a pretty high rate drawing comics.
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I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.
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In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
