Quotes 501 till 520 of 546.
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We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build a bridge to the future, and that is what I commit to you to do! So tonight, let us resolve to build that bridge to the 21st century.
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
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We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35 -
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
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When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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