African Spir Quotes
We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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Chinese people, young people, they don't go shopping a lot in department stores. All department store guys hate me. They say business is bad because of Jack.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
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The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.
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Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
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The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.
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Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
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We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
