Sebastian Franck Quotes
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.
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Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
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In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
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The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.
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My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.
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So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you're dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.
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School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.
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Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.
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Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
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There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son's football helmet to a new app that monitors force and impact against a cohort of high school players around the country?
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An only child alone and wildA cabinet maker's son.His hands were meant for different workAnd his heart was known to none -He left his home and went his lone and solitary wayAnd he gave to me a gift I knowI never can repay.
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Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?
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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
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The world loves to be deceived.
