David Gelernter Quotes
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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What is important is to win.
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There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.
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I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.
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It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.
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To all of you who served in Iraq, we saw your heroism in pushing out a dictator whose brutality must be condemned, never praised. In defeating an insurgency. In giving the Iraqi people a chance. And no matter what has happened since, your valor in the deserts, in fierce urban combat, will be honored in the annals of military history.
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Get the facts. Recognize the equities of all concerned. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. Keep an open mind and work hard. The last is most important at all. There is no short cut.
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
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The investor and the employee are in the same position, but sometimes the employee is more important, because he will be there a long time whereas an investor will often get in and out on a whim in order to make a profit.
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We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.
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The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
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I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.
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That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
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I want to work with amazing filmmakers and tell important stories, and if I have to audition to do that, I will.
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
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I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.
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You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
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I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.
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Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.
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if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.
