John Corabi Quotes
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.
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At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
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Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
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Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
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If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.
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When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.
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Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
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I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.
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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
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We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
