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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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 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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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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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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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
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Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.
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The space program needs a goal, and the goal should be humans to Mars.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
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Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?
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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
