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We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.

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Jacob Neusner

A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true.

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You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

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Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

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Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

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But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

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We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.

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My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

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In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

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Nicolas Ghesquiere

For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's a fight with everybody. I'm transforming and convincing. It's more than designing. It's shaking people and trying to give them direction. I'm a bit of a control freak. This is a problem as I get older, and it's something I should work on. I should be more confident - learn to trust people and give them freedom and delegate.

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Edouard Manet

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You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

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