Northrop Frye Quotes
Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
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A group of painters assembled in my home, read with pleasure the article you published in 'L'Avenir national'. We are all very pleased to see you defend ideas which are also ours, and we hope that, as you say, 'L'Avenir national' will kindly lend us its support when the Society we are in the process of forming is finally established.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).
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We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
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Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.
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Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
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I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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If you're gonna sing, sing loud.
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Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
