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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra -
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin Coolidge -
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz -
My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
Victor Hugo -
My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
Lake Bell -
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
Saint Bernard
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
Vince Cable -
I love dressing up.
Bat for Lashes -
I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
Wayne Rooney -
In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
Pat Robertson -
There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
Adam Davidson -
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
Cameron Crowe
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
Salman Rushdie -
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
W. Averell Harriman -
Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
Jaan Tallinn -
I want to win championships.
Victor Cruz -
It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
Barry Switzer
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Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.
Tiger Woods -
When all else fails...be a rockstar
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.
Oswald Chambers -
The feeling of actually being with someone you love at that moment is completely different than a video afterwards.
Rithvik Dhanjani -
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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