Alfred Korzybski Quotes
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I grew up on films.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
