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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
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In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
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In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853 -
In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
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In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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