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I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less…

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The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant…
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting.…
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will…
Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything…
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of…
In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And…
Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can…
California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I…
At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero…
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made…

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The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed… — Sigmund Freud
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things… — Kit Williams
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them.… — Colum McCann
Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst. — Alexandra Kollontai
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. — Sarah Kay
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry.… — Shirin Ebadi
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not… — Mark Twain
It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. — Stone Gossard
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come… — Aung San Suu Kyi
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And… — Nancy Werlin

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