Ernest Gellner Quotes
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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I am an inventor of music.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place.
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«Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»
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People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.
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If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.
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Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but took a break while my sister Madeleine and I were children. She held court in the kitchen, and we talked about everything.
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They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
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No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
