Elif Batuman Quotes

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

Elif Batuman

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WorldYouLookInjusticeDifficult

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

Jim Sensenbrenner

DuckPlayPresidentFirstGoing

The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.

John Battelle

RelationshipIdentityClimbInternet

I think President Barack Obama has been a good president.

John Lewis

GoodThinkPresidentBeenI Think

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.

Robert Kennedy

MenCommunismTyrannyOldIndividual

At first, almost everyone who got involved did so for philosophical reasons. We saw bitcoin as a great idea, as a way to separate money from the state.

Roger Ver

GreatMoneyWayFirstEveryoneSaw

I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

Rose McIver

LifeMeFeelKnowWantBoring

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Roy Barnes

PeoplePoliticalPartyCleanDivide

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Micky Dolenz

PhysicsKidEverythingQuantumEver

As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.

Louis Navellier

MoneyBondWillDoubleRuleYour

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.

Joshua Chamberlain

DreamsMenPurposeThoughtsAction

Date night is important, even if it's going to Schlotzsky's.

Brad Paisley

NightImportantGoingDateEven

Nelson Mandela is awe inspiring - a person who really sacrificed for what he believed in. I feel truly humbled by him.

Annie Lennox

FeelPersonHimAweHumbledI Feel

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