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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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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'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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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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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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Guess what? Human beings are complex.
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Time is money in the shipping business.
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For centuries, soup kitchens have been a way for local communities to offer a way of support, both nutritional and emotional to their less lucky neighbors.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.
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We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.
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I grew up with British rock.
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So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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A power struggle is always better than absolute power.
