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• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Angry

• I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Words
  • Things
  • Write

• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Business
  • Team

• With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Parents
  • Fall
  • Always

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Friends

• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Music
  • Understanding
  • Cutting

• Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • People
  • Advice
  • Yourself

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Done
  • Said
  • Returns

• We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Define
  • Blackness

• My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Community
  • Right
  • Aim

• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Life
  • Audience
  • My Life

• The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Power
  • Man
  • Law

• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tennis

• The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Look
  • Natural
  • Balanced

• Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Government
  • Economics

• We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams.

  

  Adrian Gostick
  • Culture
  • Build
  • Teams

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Meetings

• I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.

  

  Adam McKay
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