Arianna Huffington Quotes

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It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

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Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfil its promises... It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred – it is the amphetamine of its believers.

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For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.

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The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

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Isn't it really, really offensive that our president is simply not telling us the truth about what's happening in Iraq? For me, that was one of the most offensive things about the entire convention. There was no truth-telling there. It was all a complete masquerade. Both about Iraq and about the domestic economy... The problem is not that the people think the Democratic Party is not sufficiently hawkish; it's the problem that they are not sufficiently bold and sufficiently visionary. They need to go back to Bobby Kennedy and 1968. That was the last time that a Democrat truly inspired red states and blue states and everybody and the millions of people out there.

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Corporate America corrupted the watchdogs that were supposed to be guarding the public interest by feeding them under the table.

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If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.

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Accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success.

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It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?'

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Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

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We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

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America is a country ready to be taken—in fact, longing to be taken—by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

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The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country — the democratic process — is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

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Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

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Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

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Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive.

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The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations — divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

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We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we're actually writing it all the time, every day.

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Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.

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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

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It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

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