Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
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The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'
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So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
