Daniel Yergin Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.
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CNN (14 September 2001)
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Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.
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Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.