Eva Hoffman Quotes
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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I'm never in control of my time during the workday.
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It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
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'She obeys me, but only because she wants to.''It’s the only justification for obedience,' Ged observed.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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'I have come to kill you.'The death’s heads shrugged. 'You have come to try.'
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Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
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The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too.
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I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'
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'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result
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I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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Kafka taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal, and the distance between them. ... He's out there by himself. You get the jump in the feet when you read certain passages by him. That's the mark of truly great writing. It gives you the jump in the feet.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
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A power struggle is always better than absolute power.
