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Rene Girard Quotes

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: french
Birth: December 25, 1923 - November 4, 2015

Topics

History I Am Meaning More Than Ever

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

Nature Technology Balance Spiritual

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Time Problems Think Meeting Moral

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

Confidence People Feel You Way Hire

To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Best Day Think Dove Still Part

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Work Me Think Out Exhausted Going

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

Trust Reputation Political You Table

I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.

Best Me Saying Trying You Person

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

Feel Kid Always Little Goofy Like

Fashion is something that I want to be involved with for a long time, and I want to show that I can give people what they want while still keeping my pizzazz and my razzle-dazzle.

Time People Fashion Long I Can Want

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

Condoleezza Rice

Father Time Chance Think Thought

Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Winning World Small Country Skills

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Wislawa Szymborska

Work Good Respect I Am Poetry

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