Amitava Kumar Quotes
For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.
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When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.
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I believe it is my job to do everything I can so that everyone in our society feels safe, feels that justice is not an abstract concept but a fact of life for all Americans.
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I read 'Backstage' a lot when I first was unleashed into the world from drama school. And what was great about it was that if I was using it or not, it was just nice to know what was happening in my community.
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Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.
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The jambalaya of the American South owes a lot to the cuisines of the islands and western Africa, and it's my favorite of this type of one-pot cookery.
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Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.
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I decided years ago that I am just unfashionable.
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Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
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Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.
