Karl Popper Quotes
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I never left doo wop.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
