Raymond Aron Quotes
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I still keep my accent.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
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I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
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We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
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A diet of violence or pornography dulls the senses, and future exposures need to be rougher and more extreme. Soon the person is desensitized and is unable to react in a sensitive, caring, responsible manner, especially to those in his own home and family. Good people can become infested with this material and it can have terrifying, destructive consequences.
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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.
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I think we did make a statement, because we played one of the most physical teams in the league.
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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
