Elise M. Boulding Quotes
Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
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I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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If we want to impact hundreds - or millions - of people, we have to do things differently. If we look at the problem as an infrastructural problem, we cannot make an impact because it requires a lot of effort. But when we convert this problem into a knowledge problem, suddenly the problem is manageable.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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When stripped, I looked less like 'Il David' than a plucked chicken that died of myxomatosis.
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The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
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With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.
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Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
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Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
