Alfie Kohn Quotes
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
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Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.
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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
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The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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When we heard the news this morning, it was clear to me we're moving up to the next level. Consolidation in the client-server computing industry is opening the door for software on demand.
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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Obedience insures greatness, whilst disobedience leads to a repulse. Whosoever possesseth the qualities of righteousness placeth his head on the threshold of obedience.
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Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.
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The happiest people I know are those who have an obsession to the obedience of God.
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Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
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I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact.
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Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.
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Scientific and technological 'solutions' which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.
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The best way to carve is not to split.
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I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
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The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.
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Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.
