Daniel Gordis Quotes
Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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How very economical! (¡Pero que economía más grande!)
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It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
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Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
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I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.
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To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
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I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.
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Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future.
