Barack Obama Quotes
We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
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Especially from my experience as a quant in a hedge fund - I naively went in there thinking that I would be making the market more efficient and then was like, oh my God, I'm part of this terrible system that is blowing up the world's economy, and I don't want to be a part of that.
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We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.
