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- Roy Hattersley
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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. - Tom Robbins
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Heaven can never countenance the barbarous and unmanly practice of the Britons in America, which savages would blush at, and which, if not discontinued, will soon be retaliated on Britain by a justly enraged people. - John Paul Jones
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With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart. - Joe Strummer
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. - Lactantius
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I have ADHD. I'll admit it. - will.i.am
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I don't follow waves or trends or emotions. - will.i.am
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As for Madonna, I always used to laugh at her running. And now I run! I get why she always ran. I wish I'd run when she did. - Boy George
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People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me. - Boy George
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I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don't need to make up so much drama now. - Boy George
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I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am. - Boy George
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I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block. - Boy George
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I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story. - Boy George
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Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. - Bertolt Brecht
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. - Bertolt Brecht
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. - Michael Caine
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I never thought I would ever be middle-of-the-road anything, much less a middle-of-the-road Christian, but it actually ended up I'm extremely middle of the road. - M. Scott Peck
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I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties. - Bernie Siegel
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Traditional doctors say I'm a mystic. I don't deny it. - Bernie Siegel
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I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak. - Gwyneth Paltrow
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal. - Steve Albini
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When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a friend of mine is grilling stuff at his house, its almost always great. - Steve Albini
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Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture. - Steve Albini
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I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college. - Steve Albini
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I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse. - Steve Albini
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Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so. - John C. Calhoun
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Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required. - John C. Calhoun
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You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. - William Hurt
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You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other. - William Hurt
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We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not. - William Hurt
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My father was in the First World War. - Doris Lessing
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Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point. - Holly Near
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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. - Plautus
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We need to build relationships, not walls. - John B. Goodenough
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I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I've got such much to procrastinate with. - Hannah Gadsby
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To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized. - Hannah Gadsby
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I always like to have a glimmer of hopefulness, even in collapse. - Gord Downie
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I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously. - Gord Downie
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God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world. - Sheri L. Dew
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It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel. - Sheri L. Dew
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There's a steady forward march of a creative process that some of us stay with and don't give up - that should be an admirable thing - from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Miles to Ornette and some people who are not even known today - some kids coming up - people who are out to change the world. - Wayne Shorter
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I think the music that's called 'future stuff' is the soundtrack to the few people who have the nerve and the courage to continue, to go to the end of the line and not be deterred. - Wayne Shorter
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I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. - Neil Young
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While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful. - Tom Brokaw
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I am not a politician, and my other habits air good. - Charles Farrar Browne
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My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. - Charles Farrar Browne
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They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. - Charles Farrar Browne
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I'm not a politician and my other habits are good. - Charles Farrar Browne
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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? - Charles Farrar Browne
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Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. - Charles Farrar Browne
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Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound. - John Seabrook
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In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions. - John Seabrook
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Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart. - John Seabrook
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The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings. - John Seabrook
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Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013. - John Seabrook
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Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma. - John Seabrook
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I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too. - John Seabrook
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When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like. - John Seabrook
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The people at MTV are encouraged to be very confrontational and declarative about their tastes. - John Seabrook
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MTV refers to its audience as 'the demo.' Being 'in the demo' means being in the demographic sweet spot that advertisers want their programming to hit, which is ideally between 18 and 24. - John Seabrook
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PepsiCo is the largest food-and-beverage company in the United States, and the second-largest in the world after Nestle. If PepsiCo were a country, the size of its economy - sixty billion dollars in revenues in 2010 - would put it sixty-sixth in gross national product, between Ecuador and Croatia. - John Seabrook
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When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as 'collaborative filtering.' These algorithms were more often annoying than useful. - John Seabrook
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Pepsi is the second-most-recognized beverage brand in the world after Coke, and eighteen of PepsiCo's other brands, which include Tropicana, Gatorade, and Quaker Oats, are billion-dollar businesses in their own right. - John Seabrook
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I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight. - Cornel West
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The future is now. - Nam June Paik
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. - Nam June Paik
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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. - Harry Browne
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I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative. - John Linder
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Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world. - John Linder
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While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us. - John Linder
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Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years. - John Linder
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American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation. - Stephen Kinzer
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Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction. - Stephen Kinzer
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During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed. - Stephen Kinzer
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The skills necessary to change nappies or negotiate Brexit are obviously very different, but both involve a great deal of trust in the competence of the people doing the job. - Gavin Esler
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#People
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For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up on categories, rules and classification. We love people who break the mould, challenge us and make us think differently. - Gavin Esler
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We do need a vision that's uplifting, even whilst being realistic. And there's a lot in the world that already speaks to that, like tikkun olam in the Jewish faith. - Gail Bradbrook
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I just like swearing and being cheeky. - Gail Bradbrook
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People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time but it's coming home. - Gail Bradbrook
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#Home
#People
#Time
I'm horrified to have been alerted to anti-Semitism showing up in a Facebook group I'm associated with. As a busy mum I don't have time to monitor everything. - Gail Bradbrook
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We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth. - Gail Bradbrook
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#Life
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We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion. - Gail Bradbrook
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My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put his feet up and got in my mum's way. - Gail Bradbrook
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The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising. - Gail Bradbrook
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Whilst I'm all for psychedelic science - I think it's fantastic - I don't think we necessarily have time to wait for the science to tell us these medicines are useful. The indigenous cultures have already shown us the ways. - Gail Bradbrook
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When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology. - Gail Bradbrook
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Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience. - Gail Bradbrook
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#Willing
Peace cannot be unilateral. - Hassan Nasrallah
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. - Rand Paul
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences. - Rand Paul
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#Without
#You
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy. - John Bolton
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You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt. - Jon Krakauer
#Butt
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Short form media is reductionist by nature. - Jon Krakauer
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Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon. - Jon Krakauer
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#People
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You know, I was on 'Cheers' for eight years, and I couldn't get another job, and I thought, 'I'm going to be Woody Boyd forever.' Which is not bad, but I really thought I was capable of more. - Woody Harrelson
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Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. - Woody Harrelson
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Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility. - Dennis Weaver
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#Responsibility
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