Anacharsis Quotes
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.
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As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.
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'Bright Star' has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift of anything.
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.
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Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.
