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 can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don’t live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.
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After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Obviously, not all migration relates to global warming, but the correlation is higher than most would think.
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There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.
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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
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A power struggle is always better than absolute power.
