Amos Elon Quotes
The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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You do need to get lucky, no matter how talented you are.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
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On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.
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We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.
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If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.
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No one comes into our house and pushes us around.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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He's protected the football, which is very important. I think he has made good decisions when things aren't there, which is really important. Everybody is going to hit something that's open. But when it's not there, Mark has played well.
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Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up.
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We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.
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Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves.
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I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.
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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
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It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.
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There are a lot of Arabs that are not Muslims. They are Christians; they are Jews. Muslim Arabs, especially in my family, are just so ecstatic that I get to play Jesus. They're so proud.
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The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.
