Walter Benjamin Quotes
The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Thoughts which come at a call Are no better than if they came not at all Neither flower nor fruit, Yielding no root For plant, shrub, or tree.
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Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
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When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
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Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.
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The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
