Alessandro Baricco Quotes
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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Who sings of all of Love's eternity Who shines so bright In all the songs of Love's unending spells? Holy lightning strikes all that's evil Teaching us to love for goodness sake. Hear the music of Love Eternal Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.
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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
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In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.
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Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
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Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
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You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.
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We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
