James Wolfensohn Quotes
It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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To me, country music's about life. It's about Monday through Friday. It's the blue-collar, 40-hour week, songs about life. It used to have more of a sound, but I think the heart of that's still the same. It's still American music.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.
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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
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It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.
