Octavian Paler Quotes
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Octavian Paler
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
Brown Campbell
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
Saint Bernard
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
Victor Ponta
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
FKA twigs
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Warren Bennis
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
Otto Penzler
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
Iris Apfel
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
Park Bo-gum
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
Rand Paul
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
Wendell Mayes
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
Beau Bridges
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There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Edward Whymper
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Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
Rudyard Kipling
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
Salman Khurshid
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Octavian Paler
