Peter Drucker Quotes
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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I wouldn't blow my head off. I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying, 'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that.
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It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
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The computer is a moron.
