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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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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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
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A man may build as he chooses upon his foundations but he cannot change them or forget them, and if at the last the superstructure of his own building falls about his ears he tends to rediscover them at the end as the only rock he has to cling to.
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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
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Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.
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What I think it's important to recognize in today's world is that all of our societies are multiethnic, multi-religious and multicultural. And that is a positive thing. That's a richness, and also strength. But we also have to recognize that, for those societies to be harmonious, there is a lot of the investment that needs to be made in social cohesion and inclusivity. But the important thing to recognize, and particularly Europe, most of the terrorist attacks are not done by people that came from the outside. They are homegrown.
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We have as many lives as we have points of view.
