Edward Glaeser Quotes
Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
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I can Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them, Like men besides, like men in light secluded, Enjoying angels.
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When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.
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Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.
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We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.
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People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.
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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
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Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.
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Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
