Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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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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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
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You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.
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It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics.
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My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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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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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
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I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
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I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.
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Speculators buy the trend; investors are in for the long haul; "they are a different breed of cats." One reason that people lose money today is that they have lost sight of this distinction; they profess to have the long term in mind and yet cannot resist following where the hot money has led.
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I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.
