Nick Hanauer Quotes
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
Quotes to Explore
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
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I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
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My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Hymns are the poetry of the people.
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Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomena.
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What did I do to deserve this?
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Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.
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It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.
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Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
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I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
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Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
