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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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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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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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
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Searching for our kindred dead isn't just a hobby. It is a fundamental responsibility for all members of the Church. We believe that life continues after death and that all will be resurrected.
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I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.
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He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
