Isaac of Nineveh Quotes
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
Pam Dawber -
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
Barry McGuire -
In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Events are not a matter of chance.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
Wen Jiabao
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
Ha-Joon Chang -
We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
Barney Ross -
At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
Randall Terry -
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson -
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Samuel Johnson
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.
Jack Vance -
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King -
The feeling of being an outsider was a big part of my childhood. I think that helps comedians. That feeling of being an outsider. That desire for a perspective that's all your own. The idea for me to make stuff myself with my own meaning came from that as well.
Kurt Braunohler -
My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.
Joe Meno -
I think most people want to be remembered with the causes they feel worthwhile and helped promote.
Jorge M. Perez
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There is a battle between me and Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. We always do our best.
Chen Long -
A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels.
David Sze -
I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.
Chen Shui-bian -
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
Maurice Sendak -
This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.
Isaac of Nineveh