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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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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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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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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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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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together.
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God is never early and never late.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.
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People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.
