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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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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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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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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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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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
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Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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We have as many lives as we have points of view.
