Walter Bagehot Quotes
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.
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Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.
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The Congress president's post is different from others. It used to be called rashtrapati in the old days. There is just one in the whole country. I felt it was important to maintain the image of that office regardless of whether or not I thought there was a case against me.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
