Norman Finkelstein Quotes
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.