Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes
Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
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I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'
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The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.
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We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.
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I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
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You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
