I was an officer in my student council.
Niki Tsongas
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I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.
Matthew Desmond
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I hate to think life is just facts and laws.
Ang Lee
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I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.
John Scalzi
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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.
John Shelby Spong
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U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.
Stefan Sagmeister
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I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
Tom Hiddleston
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I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Ron Reagan
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I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
Rupi Kaur
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To the extent societal rules or the wiring of your brains make it easy to acquire a lot of assets, then to the extent you can, you should try to improve the world.
Mohnish Pabrai
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So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
Miroslav Vitous
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Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
Joseph Brodsky
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The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.
David Zucker
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