Isabel Allende Quotes
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'
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The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
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Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
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We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.
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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.
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Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.
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I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
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Global warming. Every day I leave my house and think, 'was it this hot last year?' the heat this summer here in LA and in most of the US has been unbearable. I can't remember another time when it was 105 degrees fahrenheit out here (40.5 celsius), and that's the kind of weather we've been having pretty much every day.
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Society decides when we get old. But the spirit never ages.
