Peter Landesman Quotes
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
Dambisa Moyo
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
Magda Apanowicz
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
BeBe Winans
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
Manika
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
Dan Stevens
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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
H. G. Wells
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Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
Charles Fourier
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Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.
William Shakespeare
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Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.
Rabindranath Tagore
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I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.
Peter Landesman
