Robert Zoellick Quotes
In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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Animals tell us something. If the animals have suffered this way from GMOs, potentially for us, let’s listen to what they’re telling us. Let’s take heed.
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Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
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I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
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All I have are the people.
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When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Yes, the people I draw don't have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I'll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he'll just have a collar.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
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To me, absurdity is the only reality.
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Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.
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In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.
