Rick Perlstein Quotes
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
Quotes to Explore
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
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Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
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With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.
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You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
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I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.
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He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before.
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You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
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I'm getting fat ... as I planned. Luckily, my gut is intentional. I'm actually preparing for a big role. Sure, it's a cinnamon roll.
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Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.
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I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.
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I know that social media's said to be a really dangerous place, and it is.
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We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.
