Abraham Flexner Quotes
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Tatiana Maslany
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
Taylor Sheridan
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar Robertson
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
Ed Westwick
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
Pamela Meyer
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Larry Page
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
Victor Pinchuk
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
Adam Ostrow
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There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
Ian Lustick
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine Albright
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
Hannah Murray
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner
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The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Yoko Ono
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov
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When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J Mascis
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These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing.
Twyla Tharp
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I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend Lucky to have been where I have been Lucky to be coming home again
Jason Mraz
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For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Edmund Spenser
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It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.
Barack Obama
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Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.
Oswald Chambers
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Abraham Flexner