Jimmy Buffett Quotes
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
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There is no doubt something has happened that is lasting in terms of attractiveness of the nightmare that is the Islamic State.
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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
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I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
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You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
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I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.
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Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.
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No authors propounded the ideas of economic liberalism in Sweden during the 1920s as vigorously as did Cassel and Heckscher, and in addition they certainly helped in no mean degree to give actual policy a liberal stamp during that decade.
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Most striking feature... is the author’s failure to understand the elementary mechanics of the competitive economic organization.
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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
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America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."
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If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.
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Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.
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When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.
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Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.
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We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.
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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.
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My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.
