Edward T. Hall Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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Red-in-red repetitions never going Away,a little rusty, a little rouged, A little roughened and ruder, a crownThe eye could not escape, a red renown Blowing itself upon the tedious ear.
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Out on the street I was talkin' to a man.He said 'there's so much of this life of mine that I don't understand.'You shouldn't worry I said, that ain't no crime.'Cause if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.
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Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.
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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
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Age affects how people experience time.
