Klaus Schwab Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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I usually just have a circle of people that I associate myself with. I'm not really cool with a lot of people. It might seem like I'm cool with them, but I'm really not.
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If you're talking about the narrow issue of public assistance, I would like to see us move to a more healthy system. But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly. The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.
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Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
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I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.
