Carroll Quigley Quotes
The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work.
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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.
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I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.
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Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.
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I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.
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Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
