Karl Polanyi Quotes
To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
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He seemed to be witnessing with his own eyes the supreme bankruptcy of humanity. Wealth had spoken the truth that night on the mountain.
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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.
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In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
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I don't want to interview people for the purpose of developing a world view and pushing that on people.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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I want to represent my country to the best of my abilities. I want to make Reese Witherspoon proud.
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Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.
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America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.
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People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.
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To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.
