Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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Power to the peaceful.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
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Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
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The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.
