Saul Bellow Quotes
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I'd really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we're on the way to doing it.
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Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
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The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
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I spent a lot time with my siblings because there weren't too many young people on our block. We were our own best friends: making dances to a Stevie Wonder songs and singing with my mom.
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The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
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People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
