Nelson Mandela Quotes
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.
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I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
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I am in an industry that makes women feel bad about themselves, absolutely.
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Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
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There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
