Chiara Lubich Quotes
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
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There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.
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Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
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I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.
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When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.
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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
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Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
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If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.
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It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.
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But, braggart demons, we postpone our end: how could we renounce the display of our freedom, the show of our pride?
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We might have a chance now to rebuild it all with what we have left. We might have learned that we can exist only as a part of nature, not apart from nature.
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Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.
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Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
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Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
