James Surowiecki Quotes
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.James Surowiecki
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To be is to do.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
Raghav Bahl -
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
C. Wright Mills -
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
Dan Quayle
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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
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We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism.
Barack Obama -
People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.
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I don't celebrate really crazy.
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The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.
James Surowiecki