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James C Scott Inspirational Quotes (18)

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A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.
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It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.
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Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.
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The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.
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The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.
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No matter how old you are, if you're just not an empathetic person, it's a lot easier to concentrate solely on something that is injuring another person to even some score. Hopefully as people grow older, their ability to empathize deepens.
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Secrets can be poisonous.
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I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself.
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It seems to me that rumors and dreams of justice are part of a dialectic of injustice and dreams of justice will be with us for as long as there's injustice, and that doesn't seem to be in short supply.
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I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.
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The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.
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I certainly am not afraid of hard work. Hard work is only hard if you are not passionate about what you are doing.
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[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.
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As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it but that might be asking too much.
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I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night.
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I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.
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The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.
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Secrets are always never as well kept as people think they are. More often than not when you reveal something, especially the bigger it is, people always had some inkling, or they're like, Well, yeah, of course.
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