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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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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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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I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
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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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The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
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A politicalized monopoly, however, is absolute. Every competitive influence is removed by force. Even abstinence on the part of the public is no threat, since every drop in revenue can be offset by a tax levy. The power of taxation removes the necessity of rendering service.
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Superman was created in the late 1930s, and humankind's idea of what the future would be was very different.
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A power struggle is always better than absolute power.
