Daniel Fried Quotes
Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Converting Facebook data into money is harder than it sounds, mostly because the vast bulk of your user data is worthless. Turns out your blotto-drunk party pics and flirty co-worker messages have no commercial value whatsoever.
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You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
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In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.
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If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.
