E. F. Schumacher Quotes
The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
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Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt-by forgetting.
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But as I listened to him, I felt a touch of coldness inside of me, as if I had suddenly become aware of the eyes of some dangerous creature. It passed in a moment, but I found myself shuddering.
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It is we who infuse life with meaning through our actions and the stories we create with them.
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'She means well,' said Mr Jarndyce, hastily. 'The wind’s in the east.' 'It was in the north, sir, as we came down,' observed Richard. 'My dear Rick,' said Mr Jarndyce, poking the fire, 'I’ll take an oath it’s either in the east, or going to be. I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.'
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We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere: And lo! it was not far, but near.We have found, O foolish-fond, The shore that has no shore beyond.Deep in every heart it lies With its untranscended skies; For what heaven should bend above Hearts that own the heaven of love?
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Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.
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Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.
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The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.
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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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First and foremost, I'm a running back. That's how I perceive myself.
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The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
