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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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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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 are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.
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You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise.
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play.
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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.
