Adam Hochschild Quotes
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.Adam Hochschild
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'
Orison Swett Marden -
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov -
The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
Octavio Paz -
I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
Kate Winslet -
My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
Dan Hill -
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown -
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Watch your finances like a hawk.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson -
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Gayle Forman -
I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
Ed Balls
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
Laura Hillenbrand -
Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
T. J. Miller -
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael -
In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania of Jordan
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In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.
Viswanathan Anand -
I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
Jack Lemmon -
It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Aaron Sorkin -
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles -
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
Adam Hochschild