Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
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Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.
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Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
