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I'm against fashionable thinking.
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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the…
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I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to…
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or…
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Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
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As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would…
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than…
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Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up…
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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of…
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and…
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
— Paulo Coelho
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Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
— Jim McMahon
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These…
— Unknown Author
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Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own…
— Jerry Uelsmann
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RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and…
— Unknown Author
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I look around, pretty much 100% of the people driving are texting. And they're killing, everybody's murdering each other with their cars.…
— Louis C. K.
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Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest…
— Martin Scorsese
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Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.
— Nick Stahl
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It is important to learn from other women. We have a lot to offer and to learn from each other out of…
— Hazel Hawke
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The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and…
— Hazel Hawke
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In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind…
— Peter Senge
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Our two nations both faced great challenges when they were founded, and our two nations have both relied on the same principles…
— George W. Bush
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