"The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe."
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"Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mutual Aid, arguing that human nature had evolved in ways conducive to the communitarian anarchism that he espoused."
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"Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and intellectual structures are learned. I think that this assumption is wrong. None of these structures is learned. They all grow; they grow in comparable ways; their ultimate forms are heavily dependent on genetic predispositions."
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"South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs."
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"In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways."
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"I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and building up a personal profile for you so that they can direct you in particular ways by their effective control over the internet, and that doesn't happen of course."
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"I don't buy much. Almost buy nothing. I buy what I need, do it the easiest way possible."
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"Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways."
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"Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly accepted - it was a way out of the embarrassment of facing likely defeat. They still have the option of bombing if they want to. And incidentally, to add one comment about this, you'll notice that this would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East."
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"Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate."
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"poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God."
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"At the end of the day, you should take every opportunity that comes your way."
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"His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close."
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"It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding."
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"I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."
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"The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."
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"Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way."
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"We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another."
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"Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way."
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"It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men."
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