Madame de Stael Quotes
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I have a very small public.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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I am very blessed.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
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It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
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This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
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I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.
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If you want real peace in the world, start with children.
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Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
