E. F. Schumacher Quotes
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
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I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.
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You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life.
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Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
