Daniel De Leon Quotes
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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To Principal Caird... imaging of the Unseen is of inestimable value. It furnishes an objective counterpart to religious emotion, permanent but plastic-capable of indefinite change and purification in response to the changing thoughts and aspirations of mankind.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
