Abraham Flexner Quotes
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.Abraham Flexner
Quotes to Explore
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Tatiana Maslany -
To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
Taylor Sheridan -
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
Oscar Robertson -
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
Pamela Meyer -
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner -
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Yoko Ono -
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 -
It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
Vicki Lawrence -
What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
Ian McShane -
I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
Faith Hill -
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid -
Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
J. Cole -
After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.
Noah Emmerich -
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
Ted Cruz -
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
Geena Davis -
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw -
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Abraham Flexner