Ursus Wehrli Quotes
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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It turns out, the bikers and the truckers and people in dive bars are the nicest people in the world.
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How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?
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I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.
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You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.
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I don't know if sitting home everyday is normal, but that's what I do.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
