Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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There is no one true church.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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The way to advance the nation's prosperity and achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization, and substituting machines and power for human backs.
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I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.
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The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.
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At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.
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What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
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Management must manage!
