Albert Camus Quotes
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.
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I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.
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I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
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To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
