Daniel Wolpert Quotes
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I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
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Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
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It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.
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I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
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In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.
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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
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The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
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We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
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Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
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The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these movements, where everyone believed there was going to be true equality, fraternity between men and women, and that together they were going to struggle against this rotten society, even there they noticed that the leftists, the militants, kept them "in their place." Women made the coffee while the others did the talking; they were the ones who typed the letters.
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History, however, is not a linear narrative of progress. Rights may be won and taken away; gains are never complete or uncontested, and popular movements generate their own countervailing pressures.
