Peter Diamandis Quotes
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
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There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
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Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.
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I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place; I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.
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National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
