Gavriel David Rosenfeld Quotes
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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I had a chance to do 'Ant-Man' in 2011.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?
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You can register a political objection in a number of ways.
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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
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If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.
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What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.
