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powerful sleep community
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family. Danny Glover
powerful class ideas
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up in the idea around our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.
powerful war book
In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history. Dan Carter
powerful truth people
Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it. Dan Brown
powerful block eye
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.
powerful engineering body
Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
powerful issues worry
Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is ... to put it mildly ... severely under-estimating the electoral importance of pocketbook issues. We conservatives are sending a powerful, inadvertent message with this negative campaign against Barack Obama's associations and former associations: that we lack a positive agenda of our own and that we don't care about the economic issues that are worrying American voters. David Frum
powerful mistake coffee
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don’t really mean what I’m saying." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: "How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean. David Foster Wallace
powerful real math
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years - is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that infinity drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting.
class connections world
Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.
class insulting definitions
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. David Frost
class way individual
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class. David Harvey
class
Normally for work I will fly business class. David Harewood
class people majority
A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession. Curtis Jackson
class people disappear
When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears. Confucius
class two feet
I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes. Alicia Vikander
class curious science-class
I was like I was in science class: I was curious. Alice Sebold
class elegance attractive
Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class. Alice Munro
ideas people important
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering
ideas common-sense reform
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Andrew Mellon
ideas people viewpoints
The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint]. Alejandro Jodorowsky
ideas mind return
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size Albert Einstein
ideas insane firsts
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
ideas giving stills
If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.
ideas aliens free-thinkers
The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.
ideas community individuality
It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification
ideas principles thanks
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.