Quotes 401 till 420 of 3019.
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Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
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Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Source: Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)― Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
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Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
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Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
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Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
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Books tap the wisdom of our species - the greatest minds, the best teachers - from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
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Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
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Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
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