Bernard Lietaer Quotes
Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperment…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified …the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
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I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'
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Throughout my life, I have talked to Heavenly Father regularly through prayer. I am very grateful to my parents for teaching me that Heavenly Father lives and that He always listens to us. He listens to me, and He listens to you. I know that He will always be there for you.
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One falls in love without thinking!
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We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.
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Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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Greed and competition are not the result of immutable human temperment…greed and fear of scarcity are in fact being created and amplified …the direct consequence is that we have to fight with each other in order to survive
