Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
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The information I have about Iran is second hand.
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I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
