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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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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The way we censor in America is the dollar. That's who censors.
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I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
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The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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We have as many lives as we have points of view.
