The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
Norway is combating climate change. It's an important issue for us. And we are committed to the Paris Agreement.
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.
Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.
