Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine
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One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Free Tibet before free trade.
Zhu Rongji
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
Karen Salmansohn
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
A. N. Wilson
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Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
Hannah Arendt
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
Larry Wall
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
Aga Khan IV
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Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.
Christine Tsai
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Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
Jeff Bridges
