Bill Le Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.
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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
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People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.
