Klaus Schwab Quotes
A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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I suppose - in the last resort - you trust life - or you don't. Well - I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
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I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.
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George Wallace is gone; Bull Connor is dead. He's not coming back.
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Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
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I'm not a super carbonated guy: some people like drinking their beer like it's a champagne, right? It's not my vibe.
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If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
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The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'
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When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
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If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.
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A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
