Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Quotes
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my fingernails out. It would be healthier. I could pick up dimes.
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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
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Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.
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Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
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A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.
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Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.
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Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.
