bell hooks Quotes
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I guess I crave stability.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
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I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
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Most people live their life around what other people do.
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Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
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Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected.
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To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.