David Berlinski Quotes
Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
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Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.
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I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
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I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.
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In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.
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Self-proclaimed saviors and other outliers come and go throughout our political history. Occasionally, they're successful; most times, they're not. But the system has rebalanced toward the basic principles of tolerance, freedom and democracy that were set forth by the Founders.
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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
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I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.
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I remember laughing so hard as a kid.
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I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
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I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.
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I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
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The word 'art' does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
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'It is enough', this malicious man tells us, 'to extinguish the line of the defeated prince.' Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?
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I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.
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In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
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Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.
