Cass Sunstein (Cass Robert Sunstein) Quotes
I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
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If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler.
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'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'
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It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
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I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.
