Peter L. Berger Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
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When I'm later in the competition, I get antsy. I'm seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It's like I'm just twiddling my thumbs.
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I thank the Lord for the night time.
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Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.
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But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.
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You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.
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We have as many lives as we have points of view.
