Charles Eisenstein Quotes
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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I'm totally myself.
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Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.
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I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.
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Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.
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You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.
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I'm actually improving.
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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
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In the production, it's my job to find every flaw and the ones that can't be fixed, and that's why my job kind of sucks. My first reaction to everything is: here's the 20 things that are wrong with it. Unfortunately, that's how I have to live.
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People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.
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My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.
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I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.
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The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
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A truly multicultural country can never be strong or united.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.
