Richard Levin Quotes
Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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I don't like it when people say, 'You're 45, so you should be wearing X and never Y.' For me, dressing is about attitude, not age.
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Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
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Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
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Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.
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This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
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If you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted.
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Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.
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I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.
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Like usual, what I want is not important, what I’m supposed to do that counts.
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Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.
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Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.
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People now have their own particular religion - a denomination of one. I suppose it's a part of the new age phenomenon, but it's much wider than that. On the whole, I would say that is healthy. But I think it was always there, secretly.
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Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.
