Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes
There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.
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These grants will help the economic redevelopment of this region by building the pool of skilled workers necessary to attract new industries.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
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It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.
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There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
